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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 software testing?

Software testing is a process that ensures all the pieces of code in software or application development work as expected by all stakeholders. The process of testing is one of the key phases in software development life cycles that explains the standardized methodology of designing and developing an application.

Software testing ensures that web applications have fewer bugs, technical requirements are implemented as expected efficiently, development costs are reduced, and ultimately, business needs are met.

Interestingly, testing, if carried out effectively, usually gives software engineers the confidence to know full well that the product they ship to production is maintainable, readable, reliable, and well structured.

This creates less panic about possible costly bugs in an application, which may cost a company embarrassment or the erosion of customers’ confidence. There are various types of software testing worthy of note – unit testing...