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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)
1
Part 1 – Frontend Development with React
9
Part 2 – Backend Development with Flask

What is JSX?

You’ve already been introduced to and seen some JSX. Let’s discuss in more depth what JSX means as a new approach to adding HTML to JavaScript when designing user interfaces.

JSX is simply an XML-like syntax extension for JavaScript. JSX allows frontend developers to bake HTML elements with JavaScript. The effect of this mix is usually an impressive user-friendly interface. As we know, the main purpose of React is to provide us with a set of APIs for building user interfaces.

With little or no controversy, React has been up to the challenge, becoming the leading shining gem in the jungle of frontend JavaScript libraries and frameworks. React powers large-scale, production-grade web and mobile applications with an improved user experience.

Interestingly, React is achieving this improved efficiency and performance with the same set of tools, languages, and techniques we are already familiar with: HTML and JavaScript. React leverages HTML elements and...