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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

Sending emails

We will want to send users of our app emails, with the first being a confirmation email when they register. Another will be sent if the user forgets their password, as we can send them a password reset email. These targeted emails are transactional rather than marketing in nature, which is an important distinction as marketing emails are rarely sent via the app code.

With transactional emails, the aim is usually to convey a task to the user as clearly as possible. For this reason, the emails are usually text-based with minimal imagery. However, we should ensure the email is branded and has space for any required legal text. This means that we need to render the emails so that the transactional text is clear and surrounded by relevant branding and text.

Rendering emails

We will consider an email as consisting of a header where we will place branding (such as a logo), content where the specifics of the email (for example, a link to our app’s password reset...