Learn how to build web applications without having to know the intricacies of the components
Build full stack projects without compromising on development speed and app performance
Prepare yourself for the diverse world of web development, analytics, and data visualization

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If you need to develop web applications quickly, where do you turn? Enter the FARM stack. The FARM stack combines the power of the Python ecosystem with REST and MongoDB and makes building web applications easy and fast. This book is a fast-paced, concise, and hands-on beginner’s guide that will equip you with the skills you need to quickly build web applications by diving just deep enough into the intricacies of the stack's components. The book quickly introduces each element of the stack and then helps you merge them to build a medium-sized web application. You'll set up a document store with MongoDB, build a simple API with FastAPI, and create an application with React. Security is crucial on the web, so you'll learn about authentication and authorization with JSON Web Tokens. You'll also understand how to optimize images, cache responses with Redis, and add additional features to your application as well as explore tips, tricks, and best practices to make your development experience a breeze. Before you know it, you'll be deploying the application to different platforms. By the end of this book, you will have built a couple of functional applications efficiently and will have the springboard you need to delve into diverse and more specialized domains.

Who is this book for?

This book is for web developers and analysts who want to include the power of a modern asynchronous Python framework, a flexible data store and a powerful UI library with the combination of two of the most important programming languages today in their web development toolkit. Beginners in the field of information presentation will also find this book helpful. You must have a beginner-level understanding of Python, JavaScript, and HTML and CSS to get the most out of this book.

What you will learn

Discover the flexibility of the FARM stack
Implement complete JWT authentication with FastAPI
Explore the various Python drivers for MongoDB
Discover the problems that React libraries solve
Build simple and medium web applications with the FARM stack
Dive into server-side rendering with Next.js
Deploy your app with Heroku, Vercel, Ubuntu Server and Netlify
Understand how to deploy and cache a FastAPI backend

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Tim McKay Dec 19, 2023

This book was released in August 2022.I worked through it in December 2023.Many of the Python packages used in this book were very out of date, and introduced numerous breaking changes.For instance, Pydandic V2 has several breaking changes from V1 from the book. I had to spend a lot of time and frustration patching the code with snippits online just to get the book examples to run. Chapter 5 is where things really started to fall down.I did learn a lot in this book. In particular, how the requirements.txt works. I wish the book (or GitHub repo for the book) would of included a frozen versioned requirements.txt so that there would have been more success in learning the FastAPI and MongoDB stack, and not wasting time troubleshooting my environments.On top of that, there were NUMEROUS errors in the text of the book. References to code was done haphazardly. Like numerous references to a cars/models.py file, when it was actually models/cars.py.Often long code snippits were broken into pieces so the author could break in to explain. None of the snippits were labelled, so sometimes it was unclear if a new snippit was a continuation or an entirely new .py file.Fundamentally, the book definately delivered on conveying the core essentials of a React, Python/FastAPI, MongoDB application stack. I learned a LOT. I went into this wanting to learn more about the backend side than the front end (I want to use this stack for Flutter mobile app development). Hands down, this author earned big points from me for being aligned perfectly in that regard.Overall, amazing exposure to many core and side topics (redis, machine learning [though, didnt work]). I have a foundation and a working code base that I can start from in order to move my learning forward. I just wish this wasn't my most frustrating technical book experience of the past 20 years. I feel that Frodo had an easier time getting the ring to Mordor.

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J. Moore Sep 23, 2023

There is a typo or flat out bug in the majority of the examples. Yes, some of these are covered in the github repo’s errata, but others are not. For instance, the basic CRUD (a car inventory app) app’s GET request to the individual car page fails if you use the book’s code or the github repo’s code bc of poorly formatted React.Worse yet, the python side is quickly becoming outdated as pydantic and FastAPI have moved to new versions that are not backwards compatible. You either need to downgrade or rework several of the routes to conform to current specs. Also, there are bugs and typos in the python side.With updates and error corrections, this could have been a great book. But the author either didn’t try to run his own code or worse yet, declared “works on my machine” and shipped it.

Amazon Customer Oct 28, 2022

Full stack clearly explained, not just code but a proper explanation of the choice of each tool.

Luiz Eduardo Fonseca Oct 24, 2022

In this book the author talks about the so-called FARM stack for Web Development. The book goes into detail on how to set environments, MongoDB and friends, CRUD operations, and REST API. Then it shows how to build the backend and frontend and how to tie it all together using authentication. Overall very enjoyable book.

Full Stack FastAPI, React, and MongoDB: Build Python web applications with the FARM stack

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