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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

Summary

In this chapter, we extensively discussed JSX in React. We delved into explaining what JSX is all about as well as the rules guiding the use of JSX in React. Then, we discussed the DOM and how VDOM in React abstracts the native browser DOM for React developers to build a more efficient, cross-browser user interface. JSX improves DOM interaction in React applications and also optimizes the speed for elements in React components to render.

We also examined event handling in React and the use of the SyntheticEvent event wrapper in React in handling event operations in React. We discussed the subtle differences between JSX and HTML and the rules guiding the usage in React.

Finally, with use cases, we discussed how you can display lists in a React project and how key and id are used in managing list items uniquely. We also looked at how you can iterate over objects and display complex nested objects in React.

In the next chapter, we will discuss how to handle form operations...