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Full-Stack Flask and React

By : Adedeji
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Book Image

Full-Stack Flask and React

3.5 (2)
By: Adedeji

Overview of this book

Developing an interactive, efficient, and fast enterprise web application requires both the right approach and tooling. If you are a web developer looking for a way to tap the power of React’s reusable UI components and the simplicity of Flask for backend development to develop production-ready, scalable web apps in Python, then this book is for you. Starting with an introduction to React, a JavaScript library for building highly interactive and reusable user interfaces, you’ll progress to data modeling for the web using SQLAlchemy and PostgreSQL, and then get to grips with Restful API development. This book will aid you in identifying your app users and managing access to your web application. You’ll also explore modular architectural design for Flask-based web applications and master error-handling techniques. Before you deploy your web app on AWS, this book will show you how to integrate unit testing best practices to ensure code reliability and functionality, making your apps not only efficient and fast but also robust and dependable. By the end of this book, you’ll have acquired deep knowledge of the Flask and React technology stacks, which will help you undertake web application development with confidence.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Frontend Development with React
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Part 2 – Backend Development with Flask

Fetching Data with React APIs

Over the past few years, there has been an increase in the demand for database-driven web applications. This increase is a consequence of the abundance of data available at this present time. With widespread internet adoption, businesses leverage web applications to interact with customers, employees, and other stakeholders.

More than ever, web developers are constantly faced with tasks such as the organization and consumption of data. Both internal and external data require us to have smart and business-oriented database-driven web applications.

As a full stack software engineer, some of your frontend tasks will be to consume data, either from an internally developed API or a third-party API. Before we delve into approaches or tools you can use to fetch data in React projects, let’s briefly discuss what APIs are all about and why they are redefining ways of building user interfaces and web applications.

An API simply allows communication...