React-Flask-Todo

This is a toy Todo project. The create-react-app frontend connects to a Flask REST API.

More information specific to the client and server can be found at react-flask-todo/client/readme.md and react-flask-todo/server/readme.md respectively.

The app uses the following concepts/technologies:

• a REST API with vanilla Flask routing
• styled-components (I appreciate CSS super close to JS)
• basic create-react-app

To install:

git clone https://github.com/Quidge/react-flask-todo.git
cd react-flask-todo
bash setup.sh

This will:

• Create a Python virtual environment at react-flask-todo/venv.
• Install the Python modules used by the server into the virtual environment.
• (Create and) populate a sqlite database with 5 randomly generated tasks.
• Install the npm packages used by the frontend.
• Leave you in the react-flask-todo directory.

Starting the React and Flask servers:

(Be sure to have two separate shells available. One for the React server and the other for the Flask API)

To start the API server

(Make sure to start in the project directory: react-flask-todo)

cd server
source venv/bin/activate
env FLASK_APP=application flask run

This will start the Flask server running in your current shell. It is listening (and waiting!) for requests on http://localhost:5000/api/tasks

To start the React app:

(In a separate shell, starting from react-flask-todo)

cd client/app
npm start

This will start the React server running in your (other) shell. The client site runs at http://localhost:3000/ It will (probably) automatically open a browser window or tab to that url. You can manually paste that url into your browser otherwise.