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Full-Stack Flask and React

By : Adedeji
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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)
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Part 1 – Frontend Development with React
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Part 2 – Backend Development with Flask

JSX and Displaying Lists in React

Componentization is a design paradigm in React application development. As a developer and React enthusiast, you will develop tons of useful components. You will need a combination of units to provide interfaces the user can interact with seamlessly.

JavaScript Syntax Extension (JSX) is an innovative approach to describing the User Interface (UI) for modern web applications. In this chapter, we are going to take a clinical dive into why JSX is one of the core requirements in developing production-ready React applications. In addition, you will learn how to display lists in React.

We use lists in virtually every web application development project we undertake, and knowing how to render lists is a required skill set for web developers. HTML and JavaScript, as languages of the web, have been with us from the beginning, helping web developers build web applications.

However, in recent times, the demand for complex and highly rich interactive...