The Elements of a Web Application

Understand essential web application elements such as asynchronous vs synchronous communication, single-page and multi-page apps, REST API principles, and database types. Learn how these concepts combine to build modern full stack web applications with React, Flask, and SQL.

We'll cover the following...

Types of communication
Types of application
Types of databases
REST API
Data Model

The following concepts are important to know in web application development: asynchronous communication, single-page applications, NoSQLnot only structured query language databases, REST APIsREST API is an application program interface and it stands for representational state transfer, and data models.

Types of communication

There are two types of communications between the client and the server:

Asynchronous communication
Synchronous communication

The properties of both types are explained in the following table: ...

1.Introduction

2.Basic Client Pages with React

3.Dynamic Client-Side Pages with React

4.Server-Side API Creation with Flask

5.Database Definition and Creation with SQLAlchemy

6.Code Documentation with Sphinx

7.An Introduction to Code Testing

8.UI Testing

9.API Testing

10.Database Integrity Testing

11.Automatically Testing Every Update

12.Design a Web Application

13.Build the Data Model

14.Build the REST API

15.Build the React Client

16.Finishing Touches for the App

17.Web Authentication

18.Deploy the Application

Project

19.Conclusion

20.Appendix

The Elements of a Web Application

Types of communication