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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 – 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

TDD

TDD is a development paradigm that puts writing tests first. You write the test first and then write code to validate. The main purpose of TDD is rapid feedback. You write a test, run it, and it fails. You then write minimal code to pass the test. Once the test passes, you then refactor your code appropriately.

These processes are iteratively repeated. Focusing on writing tests before code implementation allows developers to see the product from the users’ point of view, thus ensuring a working functionality that meets the users’ needs.

TDD enables software developers to come up with units of code base with a single responsibility – allowing code to do just one thing that works properly. However, the traditional approach is to code and then test. The idea of testing a code base at the end of the development process has been proven to be flawed and comes with a high cost of code maintenance.

Most software developers are more agile than test-driven....

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