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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

Building the API

In the previous chapter, we built a backend that connects to the database, manages user sessions, and sends emails. Now, we will add a specific API to the backend that tracks the member’s to-do’s. This will require an API that allows members, sessions, and to-dos to be managed.

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to build a RESTful API, which is a very popular style of API and one you’ll likely use and come across in your career. You’ll also build an API to manage members and authenticate their actions, which could be used in any other app with minimal changes. Finally, we will also build an API to track the to-dos, which, again, could be adapted for other uses.

We’ll build the API using a RESTful style as it works very well with web apps and can be expressed very easily with Quart. A RESTful API is where the functionality is grouped by resource with each function being an action acting on the resource. For example, the...