Publisher's Synopsis
What You Will Learn in This Book
- Master the fundamentals of full-stack web development, understanding the distinct roles of frontend and backend, and how they interact through APIs.
- Build robust backend APIs using Python, leveraging the power of both Django (with Django REST Framework) and Flask to handle data, authentication, and business logic.
- Develop dynamic and responsive user interfaces with React, mastering core concepts like components, state management (including Hooks), and client-side routing.
- Connect your Python backend with your React frontend seamlessly, implementing secure token-based authentication (JWT) and handling Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS).
- Design and manage databases effectively, utilizing Django's ORM and Flask-SQLAlchemy with migration tools like Alembic.
- Implement advanced backend features such as asynchronous task processing with Celery, caching strategies, and comprehensive security measures.
- Efficiently manage user input and forms in both backend APIs and React applications, ensuring data validation and a smooth user experience.
- Write comprehensive tests for both your Python backend (unit and integration tests, API testing) and React frontend (Jest and React Testing Library) to ensure application reliability.
- Containerize your full-stack applications with Docker and Docker Compose, streamlining your development environment and preparing for deployment.
- Deploy your full-stack Python and React applications to production environments, understanding various options from PaaS to VPS, and configuring web servers like Nginx and WSGI servers.
- Set up Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions to automate testing and deployment processes.
- Implement essential security best practices across the entire stack, protecting your applications from common vulnerabilities.
- Monitor and optimize the performance of your web applications, learning about logging, error reporting, and various performance enhancements.
