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A Blueprint for Production-Ready Web Applications

By : Dr. Philip Jones
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A Blueprint for Production-Ready Web Applications

By: Dr. Philip Jones

Overview of this book

A Blueprint for Production-Ready Web Applications will help you expand upon your coding knowledge and teach you how to create a complete web application. Unlike other guides that focus solely on a singular technology or process, this book shows you how to combine different technologies and processes as needed to meet industry standards. You’ll begin by learning how to set up your development environment, and use Quart and React to create the backend and frontend, respectively. This book then helps you get to grips with managing and validating accounts, structuring relational tables, and creating forms to manage data. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of web application development by creating a to-do app, which can be used as a base for your future projects. Finally, you’ll find out how to deploy and monitor your application, along with discovering advanced concepts such as managing database migrations and adding multifactor authentication. By the end of this web development book, you’ll be able to apply the lessons and industry best practices that you’ve learned to both your personal and work projects, allowing you to further develop your coding portfolio.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
1
Part 1 Setting Up Our System
3
Part 2 Building a To-Do App
8
Part 3 Releasing a Production-Ready App

Technical requirements

I’ve built the app described in this book and you can use it by visiting the following link: https://tozo.dev. The code is also available at https://github.com/pgjones/tozo (feel free to use that code or the code in this book under the MIT license).

I’m going to assume you have a working knowledge of TypeScript and Python, as these are the languages we’ll use to write the app. However, we’re going to avoid any esoteric language features and I hope the code is easily understandable. I’m also going to assume you are happy using the command line, rather than focusing on GUI instructions, as most tooling is optimized for command-line usage, and this is something that should be advantageous.

To follow the development in this chapter, use the companion repository at https://github.com/pgjones/tozo and see the commits between the r1-ch1-start and r1-ch1-end tags.