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Fetching and Displaying Data in a React-Flask Application
In the preceding chapter, you were able to successfully integrate the React frontend into the Flask backend. This is a significant milestone in the journey of a full stack web developer. In this chapter, you will build on what you have learned and dive deeper into data fetching in a full stack web application.
Data fetching is important in a web application because it allows the application to retrieve data from a backend server, API, or database and display that data to a user. Without the ability to fetch data, a web application would be limited to displaying only hardcoded data, which would not be very useful or dynamic. By fetching data from a backend server or API, the application ...
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