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Full-Stack Flask and React

You're reading from   Full-Stack Flask and React Learn, code, and deploy powerful web applications with Flask 2 and React 18

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803248448
Length 408 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Olatunde Adedeji Olatunde Adedeji
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Frontend Development with React
2. Chapter 1: Getting Full Stack Ready with React and Flask FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Getting Started with React 4. Chapter 3: Managing State with React Hooks 5. Chapter 4: Fetching Data with React APIs 6. Chapter 5: JSX and Displaying Lists in React 7. Chapter 6: Working with React Router and Forms 8. Chapter 7: React Unit Testing 9. Part 2 – Backend Development with Flask
10. Chapter 8: SQL and Data Modeling 11. Chapter 9: API Development and Documentation 12. Chapter 10: Integrating the React Frontend with the Flask Backend 13. Chapter 11: Fetching and Displaying Data in a React-Flask Application 14. Chapter 12: Authentication and Authorization 15. Chapter 13: Error Handling 16. Chapter 14: Modular Architecture – Harnessing the Power of Blueprints 17. Chapter 15: Flask Unit Testing 18. Chapter 16: Containerization and Flask Application Deployment 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

API documentation

Have you ever tried to assemble a piece of equipment you bought from a store without looking through the manual? There is a high probability you will have done so deliberately. You smartly think it will be easy to put together, and most times, you get burned in this process of trial and error and eventually mess things up.

Manuals are a good resource meant to ease you through a product’s features and functionality. API documentation is no different from manuals for guidance, a set of instructions, references, or even tutorial materials that can enhance developers’ understanding of your API.

Why is API documentation a critical component of your API? We will examine a few reasons and dive into using the Postman client tool to document your API so that other developers can understand what it is all about and how to use it. We will use a very simplistic case study with the venues CRUD operation we examined in the preceding section.

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