Wield the power of Python, React.js, and MongoDB to build web applications quickly and broaden your web development horizons
Key Features
- Learn how to build web applications without having to know the intricacies of the components
- Build full stack projects without compromising on development speed and app performance
- Prepare yourself for the diverse world of web development, analytics, and data visualization
Book Description
If you need to develop web applications quickly, where do you turn? Enter the FARM stack. The FARM stack combines the power of the Python ecosystem with REST and MongoDB and makes building web applications easy and fast.
Modern Web Development with the FARM Stack will serve as a fast-paced, concise, and hands-on beginners guide that will equip you with the skills you need to quickly build web applications without needing to dive deep into the intricacies of the stack's components.
The book quickly introduces each element of the stack and then dives deep into merging them to build a medium-sized web application. You'll set up a document store with MongoDB, build a simple API with FastAPI, and create a simple application with React.js. Security is crucial on the web, so you'll learn about authentication and authorization with JSON Web Tokens. You'll learn how to optimize and add additional features to your application and pick up tips, tricks, and best practices to make your development experience a breeze. Before you know it, you'll be deploying the application to different platforms.
By the end of this book, you will have built an amazing functional application efficiently without hassle, and will have the springboard you need to delve into diverse and more specialized domains.
What you will learn
- Discover the flexibility of the FARM stack
- Implement JWT authentication with FastAPI
- Explore the various Python drivers for MongoDB
- Discover the problems that React.js libraries solve
- Build a simple web application with the FARM stack
- Dive into server-side rendering with Next.js
- Deploy your application with Deta, Heroku, Vercel, and Netlify
- Learn how to deploy a FastAPI backend
Who This Book Is For
This book is aimed at web developers looking to dive into the power of a modern asynchronous Python framework in their projects. It would also benefit data analysts who wish to present their data in an attractive and interactive way on the web by combining the frontend world of React.js and Next.js with Python. The book requires a beginner-level understanding of Python and JavaScript programming.
Table of Contents
- Web Development and the FARM Stack
- Setting up the Document Store with MongoDB
- Getting started with FastAPI
- Setting up a bit of React
- Building the Backend for our Application
- Building the Frontend of the application
- Extending our FARM stack application
- Deploying on Heroku and Netlify
- Best practices and final thoughts
