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Full-Stack Flask and React
Full-Stack Flask and React

Full-Stack Flask and React: Learn, code, and deploy powerful web applications with Flask 2 and React 18

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Full-Stack Flask and React

Getting Full Stack Ready with React and Flask

The creator of the first website, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, envisaged the web as an open platform that would allow internet users to share information, access opportunities, and collaborate without geographic and cultural restrictions. Interestingly, software developers are innovatively driving the realization of this mission.

As developers, we enable feature-rich web applications that make positive impacts on individuals and businesses around the world. Apart from sharing information, the web has drastically changed from mere static web pages to dynamic and database-driven web applications. Web technologists are coming up with new tools and techniques to make access to information on the internet hassle-free and natively convenient.

By the end of this chapter, you’ll have a better understanding of full stack web development in the context of client-server architectures. We’ll discuss major interactions that exist between the frontend of web applications and a database-driven backend.

Having these skill sets will usher you into the hall of fame of full stack web developers. This comes with complete knowledge of what it takes to start a web application development project from scratch and transform it into a full-blown web application. Whether you are a lone developer or a developer functioning in a collaborative team role, knowledge of full stack web development will boost your confidence to perform efficiently. In addition, you’ll have the flexibility to fit any assigned role in a team setting.

Further, we’ll dive into the reasons to use React, a UI library for building the user-facing end of web applications. You’ll briefly be introduced to the world of React and the reasons why React is essential to build complex modern web application interface components that allow users to have a smooth experience.

Developing web applications requires setting up the development environments. In full stack web application development, the frontend and backend have separate development environments. We’ll discuss how to set up React for the frontend and Flask as backend technology to power server-based processing and database interactions.

Additionally, we’ll dive into getting ready with Git, which is a source version control tool that helps developers to track changes to the code base. You are expected to acquire enough basic knowledge to kickstart deploying your code to GitHub, an online platform for version control.

In this age of technological innovation and the proliferation of creative software developments, source version control is an integral part of development. It fosters collaboration among software developers to solve problems in open source or commercial projects.

We’ll end the chapter by discussing the implementation of a real-world project we will build in this book, Bizza. The project takes you on a journey from a frontend web application perspective to a database-driven backend, connected to the REST API layer to facilitate communication.

So, without further ado, let’s start to experience the world of full stack web application development using two in-demand tech stacks, React and Flask. By the end of this book, you will be able to develop full stack applications.

In this chapter, we will cover the following main topics:

  • An introduction to full stack web development
  • Why should we choose React?
  • Why should we choose Flask?
  • Getting ready with Git
  • What are we building?
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  • Combine Flask's pagination techniques with React's dynamic rendering for an enhanced user experience
  • Implement robust API development within Flask applications by performing CRUD operations
  • Improve Flask app scalability with blueprints using a modular development approach
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Description

Developing an interactive, efficient, and fast enterprise web application requires both the right approach and tooling. If you are a web developer looking for a way to tap the power of React’s reusable UI components and the simplicity of Flask for backend development to develop production-ready, scalable web apps in Python, then this book is for you. Starting with an introduction to React, a JavaScript library for building highly interactive and reusable user interfaces, you’ll progress to data modeling for the web using SQLAlchemy and PostgreSQL, and then get to grips with Restful API development. This book will aid you in identifying your app users and managing access to your web application. You’ll also explore modular architectural design for Flask-based web applications and master error-handling techniques. Before you deploy your web app on AWS, this book will show you how to integrate unit testing best practices to ensure code reliability and functionality, making your apps not only efficient and fast but also robust and dependable. By the end of this book, you’ll have acquired deep knowledge of the Flask and React technology stacks, which will help you undertake web application development with confidence.

Who is this book for?

This book is for Python web developers who want to build full-stack applications, as well as for frontend developers seeking to expand their skillset by employing Flask as a backend development tool. You’ll gain proficiency in both frontend and backend skills, and acquire the knowledge necessary to deploy solutions in the cloud using AWS. Prior knowledge of basic HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Python programming will help you to get the most out of this book.

What you will learn

  • Explore the fundamentals of React for building user interfaces
  • Understand how to use JSX to render React components
  • Handle data and integrate third-party libraries and APIs into React applications
  • Secure your Flask application with user authentication and authorization
  • Discover how to use Flask RESTful API to build backend services with React frontend
  • Build modular and scalable Flask applications using blueprints

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Table of Contents

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

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Fawole John Oyeyemi Oct 23, 2023
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Full stack Flask and React: Learn, Code and Deploy Powerful with Flask 2 and React 18 by Olatunde Adedeji is a broad guide for web developers who want to build full-stack applications using flask and React.Olatunde did a great job on the book covering an array of topics from the fundamentals of React and Flask to advanced concepts such as API development, authentication, error handling and deployment.Wether you are a python web developer or a frontend developer looking to expand your expertise and skillset, this book will help you acquire the necessary knowledge and confidence to develop full-stack applications using Flask and React.
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Embark on a transformative journey with this brilliantly crafted React+Flask guide. Beyond a well-written book, it's a roadmap for full-stack success, seamlessly guiding you from project inception to deployment. Concepts unfold with clarity, making complex ideas digestible for all levels. Whether novice or seasoned, the insights are invaluable. It's not just a read; it's a manual for absorption, application, and mastery. For aspiring end developers, these concepts are foundational.
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Richard Nov 16, 2023
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As someone who went to a bootcamp and learned the Python-Flask full stack, this book answers so many questions and fills in many gaps in knowledge. The the price its well worth the resources. The book covers React, Python, Docker and even Unit testing for both flask and react. One of my biggest curiosities has been SQLAlchemy and how to use it properly because I wanted to simplify database relationships and it covers that as well !
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You can get some ideas from the book, but drop the hope to learn something in structured way, and to have working application in the end.
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