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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

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed two vital concepts in React: forms and routing. We highlighted the subtle difference in the forms that are set up in non-React and React applications. React provides tons of improvement in how it handles form elements through the use of controlled and uncontrolled form components to enhance the user experience.

Then, we delved into validation concepts and how you can implement validation rules in React. We then spoke about React Router. We demonstrated how React Router, a third-party library, enables us to navigate complex React applications. We discussed the use of Route, Links, and nested Routes and explored how they are used in a React project.

In the next chapter, we will learn about and understand how to implement testing in React applications. Testing is an essential part of software development as it ensures the components of an application work as they should and that the relevant best practices are observed in development.