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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
9
Part 2 – Backend Development with Flask

JSX versus HTML

JSX is an XML-like syntax extension for JavaScript. It is a creative approach to writing HTML inside JavaScript. Technically, React allows us to use what we love: HTML tags in marking up user interfaces while it uses React.createElement() under the hood. JSX makes component interface development hassle-free while optimizing efficiency.

HTML is the standard language for structuring the web. HTML elements power every web page you see on the internet. HTML syntax is easy to understand, and it is the language the browser understands natively.

The following table clearly states the subtle differences that exist between JSX and HTML for better understanding and usage in React applications:

HTML

JSX

Native to the browser

HTML elements are native to the browser.

JSX is transpiled into JavaScript using...