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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

Adding routing

Frontend apps are usually made up of multiple pages, as is our to-do app. We will achieve this with routing, which allows different page components to render, depending on the app’s path. As we are building a single-page app, this routing will be done in the frontend code, rather than the backend, which would be the case for a multi-page app.

We’ll use React Router (reactrouter.com) to handle routing in our app. It is installed by running the following command in the frontend directory:

npm install react-router-dom

Single-page app

A single-page app, often called an SPA, refers to a web app whereby only a single page is fetched from the backend server. This single page is then able to render all the pages within the app. This is an advantage as navigating from one page to another is typically quicker in an SPA; however, this comes with the cost of a larger initial download.

I find it clearer to place all the routing into a single component...