Connecting CoreUI Frontend with Python Backend in 5 Easy Steps

Overview

Learn how to connect a React-based CoreUI frontend with a Python and Flask backend in this comprehensive tutorial. Discover the essential steps to set up a full-stack development environment, including validating Python and Flask applications, adding a development proxy server to the CoreUI frontend, implementing classes for handling GET and POST RESTful requests, connecting routes-based pages to call Python backend APIs, parsing API responses, and rendering data on web pages. Follow along as the instructor guides you through code reviews, setup processes, and practical implementations, ensuring you can verify both GET and POST connections between CoreUI and the Python web server. By the end of this 21-minute video, you'll have the knowledge to build a functional full-stack application using these popular technologies.

Syllabus

Start of the Video
Intro
GitHub code review
Python code review in PyCharm
Python code extended YouTube tutorials link
CoreUI React admin template code cloning
CoreUI code open in VSCode
Step 1 - setupProxy.js added with code
Step 2 - Add backend server into .env
Step 3 - Implementing Get API connection function to backend
Step 4 - Implementing Post API connection function to backend
Step 5 - Using Get and Post implementation in code
Get API connection verification with code
Post API connection verification with code
Pushing code to GitHub repo
Recap