Deleting data from a database – the React–Flask approach

Deleting data from a database involves removing one or more records or rows from a table. In this section, you are going to learn how to handle delete requests in a React–Flask web application.

Handling delete requests in Flask

Let’s create the endpoint to handle the logic for deleting speaker data from the database:

@app.route('/api/v1/speakers/<int:speaker_id>',    methods=['DELETE'])
def delete_speaker(speaker_id):
    speaker = Speaker.query.get_or_404(speaker_id)
    if not current_user.has_permission("delete_speaker"):
        abort(http.Forbidden("You do not have permission to
            delete this speaker"))
    events =
      ...