Summary
We have managed to create a very rudimentary React single-page application and we connected it to our FastAPI backend. Our app is able to display cars, edit their price, and delete cars from MongoDB, so we can safely say that we have achieved the initial goal – we have CRUD functionality.
This application is not only a kind of proof-of-concept, but it is also completely unusable for any kind of work: our API is not protected in any way and anyone with the URL of our endpoint can begin issuing requests, inserting fake cars, or editing and deleting existing ones! We could, of course, run MongoDB on our own local computer, but that would kind of defy the purpose of this book.
In the next chapter, we will introduce the basic ideas and concepts of authentication and authorization and we will explore ways in which we can make our FARM stack apps secure and usable.
