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Published inOct 2023
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Olatunde Adedeji
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Olatunde Adedeji

Olatunde Adedeji is a seasoned web developer with over 15 years of experience in developing dynamic and detail-oriented enterprise web applications. Along with his extensive experience in developing, maintaining and supporting mobile, web and enterprise applications in Python, Go and JavaScript, Olatunde has consistently delivered excellent services, as team lead, team member or in consultancy capacity. Olatunde is proficient in application design and solution blueprinting; including mastery of application development tools such as: Flask, Django, Gin, React, and NodeJS. When not weaving the web and playing chess, Olatunde spends time with his wife, Adedoyin and two daughters, Mitchelle and Mabel.
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Configuring the React frontend for API consumption

In this section, you will configure the frontend React app to communicate with the backend Flask server by setting up a proxy in React to consume the API from the Flask server.

In order to configure the React proxy for API consumption, you will need to update the proxy field in the package.json file of the frontend React app. The proxy field allows you to specify a URL that will be used as the base for all API requests made from the React app.

Let’s update the package.json file:

  1. Open the package.json file in the project directory using a text editor, and then add a proxy field to the package.json file and set it to the URL of your Flask server:
    {  "name": "bizza",  "version": "0.1.0",  "proxy": "http://localhost:5000"}
  2. Next, you will need to make HTTP requests to the Flask server from the React frontend. We will use the...
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Olatunde Adedeji is a seasoned web developer with over 15 years of experience in developing dynamic and detail-oriented enterprise web applications. Along with his extensive experience in developing, maintaining and supporting mobile, web and enterprise applications in Python, Go and JavaScript, Olatunde has consistently delivered excellent services, as team lead, team member or in consultancy capacity. Olatunde is proficient in application design and solution blueprinting; including mastery of application development tools such as: Flask, Django, Gin, React, and NodeJS. When not weaving the web and playing chess, Olatunde spends time with his wife, Adedoyin and two daughters, Mitchelle and Mabel.
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