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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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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

Test-driven development with Flask

TDD is a software development approach where you write automated tests before writing the actual code. The process involves writing a test case for a specific feature or functionality and then writing the minimum amount of code necessary to make the test pass. Once the test passes, you write additional tests to cover different edge cases and functionality until you have fully implemented the desired feature.

Using Flask with an attendee endpoint as a case study, the TDD process might look like this:

  1. Define the feature: The first step is to define the feature you want to implement. In this case, the feature is an endpoint that allows users to view a list of attendees for an event.
  2. Write a test case: Next, you must write a test case that defines the expected behavior of the endpoint. For example, you might write a test that checks that the endpoint returns a JSON response with a list of attendees.
  3. Run the test: You then run the test...
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