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Full-Stack Flask and React

You're reading from  Full-Stack Flask and React

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803248448
Pages 408 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Author (1):
Olatunde Adedeji Olatunde Adedeji
Profile icon Olatunde Adedeji

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1 – Frontend Development with React
2. Chapter 1: Getting Full Stack Ready with React and Flask 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

Handling forms in React and Flask

Handling forms in a React frontend and a Flask backend is a common pattern in web development. In this pattern, the React frontend sends HTTP requests to the Flask backend to submit or retrieve form data.

On the React frontend side, you can use a form component to render a form and handle form submissions. You can use controlled components, such as input, textarea, and select, to control the form values and update the component state as a user inputs data.

When the user submits the form, you can use an event handler to prevent the default form submission behavior and send an HTTP request to the Flask backend using a library such as Axios. In this section, we will work with the Axios library.

On the Flask backend side, you can define a route to handle the HTTP request and retrieve the form data from the request object. You can then process the form data and return a response to the frontend.

The EventRegistration component provides a simple...

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