Ebook: Full-Stack Flask and React: Learn, code and deploy flask web applications [Team-IRA]

Embark on an immersive journey from user interface interaction, data modeling, API development and documentation to deploying web applications in the cloud, while learning modern web development approaches to develop applications

Key Features

• Acquire the ability to effectively manage pagination in Flask using postgreSQL database
• Implement robust API development within Flask applications by performing CRUD operations
• Improve the modularity and scalability of Flask applications by implementing Blueprints in a modular development approach

Book Description

Developing an interactive and efficiently fast enterprise web application requires both the right approach and tooling. Flask is a lightweight web framework designed to develop scalable web applications in Python. If you are a web developer looking for a way to tap the awesome power of reusable UI components of React and the simplicity of Flask for backend development, you are on the right cruise ship.

This book teaches you how to build simple and efficiently fast production-ready web applications. We begin the book with an introduction to React, a JavaScript library for building highly interactive and reusable user interfaces. As you progress further, you will learn data modeling for the web using SQLAlchemy and PostgreSQL, Restful API development, as well as understand how to identify your application users and control access to your web application. You will also explore the modular architectural design for flask-based web applications, error handling techniques, and a practical web project which will be deployed to AWS cloud computing.

By the end of this book, you would have acquired a deeper knowledge of Flask and React technology stacks to undertake web application development with improved confidence and success.

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
• Learn how to use Flask RESTful API to build backend services with React frontend
• Build modular and scalable Flask applications using blueprints

Who This Book Is For

This book is intended for Python web developers who wish to build full-stack applications, as well as for frontend developers seeking to expand their skillset by employing Flask as a backend development tool. Readers will gain proficiency in both frontend and backend skills, and acquire knowledge on how to deploy their solutions in the cloud using AWS. Prior knowledge of basic HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Python is required to benefit from this book.

Table of Contents

1. Getting Fullstack Ready with React and Flask
2. Getting started with React
3. Managing State with React Hooks
4. Fetching Data with React APIs
5. JSX and Displaying Lists in React
6. Working with Forms and Router
7. React Unit Testing
8. SQL and Data Modelling
9. Forms Handling and Data validation
10. API Development and Documentation
11. Fetching & Displaying Data
12. Authentication & Authorization
13. Errors Handling
14. Modular Architecture: The Power of Blueprints
15. UnitTesting in Flask
16. Server Deployment and Containerization