Summary
In this chapter, we provided a brief introduction to modern full stack web development, with an emphasis on the distinction between frontend and backend developers. We discussed the importance of React in building the user interfaces of web applications, and we explained how React and Flask are perfect tools to develop full stack web applications, owing to their simplicity, efficiency, and high performance when compared to rivals in the industry. The development environments for React and Flask were covered as well.
Lastly, we discussed the importance of Git as a tool for version control and the project we will build in this book, Bizza.
In the next chapter, we’ll dive deeper into explaining components, props, and states in React to better understand how React applications are built. A typical React project structure will be discussed, with the aim of learning the functions of files and directories.
