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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 user authentication pages

On the first visit to our app, users will need to register, confirm their email, and log in. Whereas, on subsequent visits, they’ll just need to log in. Each of these actions will need to be a page in our app.

Registration

The first thing a new user needs to do when visiting our app is to register, so we’ll start by adding a registration page. To register, the user will need to enter their email and a password. Once the user has supplied these, we’ll use the members API to create the user and then redirect the user to the login page or, if the API call fails, display the relevant error.

We’ll start by adding this logic as a custom useRegister hook to frontend/src/pages/Register.tsx:

import axios from "axios"; 
import { FormikHelpers } from "formik";
import { useContext } from "react";
import { useNavigate } from "react-router";
import { ToastContext } from "src/ToastContext...