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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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Preface 1. Part 1 ā€“ 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 ā€“ 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 ā€“ 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

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Flask, as a popular Python web framework, provides developers with a flexible and lightweight solution for building web applications. With Flask, you can easily create and manage RESTful APIs. The process of implementing a REST API in a Flask application is simple.

Implementing a REST API in a Flask application involves defining API endpoints, request handlers, and data models, and possibly connecting to a database. In this section, we are going to design a REST API service using Flask that a React frontend application can consume.

We will follow a simple process of defining the resources expected in the Bizza application, following which we will define the URLs (endpoints) that would be used to access the resources. In addition, we will use Flaskā€™s routing system to map each endpoint to a specific function in the application.

Each function should handle the HTTP request, interact with the database (if necessary), and return...

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