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

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803248448

Length 408 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Flask

Concepts

Full Stack Web Development

Author (1):

Olatunde Adedeji

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

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

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Summary

In this chapter, we explored API development in Flask applications. We started by understanding what an API is all about and why businesses and developers are creating and consuming APIs to drive their data access. We took things further by taking a quick run through common terminologies developers come across when implementing the API design pattern.

Then, we unmasked the structure of endpoints and payloads, recognizing that designing routes and exchanging data form the foundational elements of API development. In addition, we critically examined the design principles guiding RESTful API development. We discussed how understanding the REST API design principles enhances best practices in API design and development. Also, we discussed the implementation of the REST API and how we can connect API backend services with a database in a Flask application.

Finally, we discussed API testing and documentation with Postman. In API design and development, we recognized how testing...