Summary: Environment Setup
Explore how to configure your development environment by setting up Python virtual environments for frontend and backend, initializing project structure, managing dependencies including React and Material UI, and running your web app efficiently using Parcel. This lesson prepares you to start building a complete web application.
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Once the application loads successfully, we’re ready to move forward and start building the application. It is generally advised to keep the Parcel development web server (or later, the proxy web server) running while developing. It will automatically detect changes to the entry point file (in our case, app.py) and reload the application in the web browser for us. This speeds up the development loop quite a bit, even if we have to manually touch the app.py file (usually by just putting a space on an empty line) to trigger the application rebuild process by Parcel. It may seem a little inconvenient (and it is), but it is easier ...