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

Routing with React Router

Routing in a React web application is the ability to navigate seamlessly to and from multiple application components, URLs, pages, and resources, both internal and external. By default, React doesn’t include page routing in its library. And as a matter of fact, React’s main goal is to allow developers to design the display of the view of a single-page web application.

We all know web applications require multiple views, hence the need for an external library such as React Router to allow for component navigation. Working with a large application would require multiple specialized views. This means we have to solve the problem of navigation left untreated with the React library, but this is where React Router comes in.

React Router is an open source package that’s used for component-based routing in React applications. It is popular among React developers and widely used in various React projects. Interestingly, you can use React...