Build a Simple CRUD App with Python, Flask, and React
Create a CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) application using Python, Flask, and React.
Dan Mulholland
Thank you for this detailed tutorial, much appreciated.
I found I was missing installation of flask-cors:
pipenv install flask-cors==3.0.7
and also there was no particular instruction to place your okta domain with https:// in front or to use your client id for the Login component:
issuer=“https://dev-276301.oktapreview.com” // {yourOktaDomain}
client_id=“0oajejknylm5lr0Nn0h7” // {yourClientId}
Waldemar Enns
Hello, thank you for the nice tutorial!
One question:
Now the Octa Middleware handles the Auth-Check but that means, that the Flask API itself is not protected against unauthenticated requests, right? So i could just use the API with curl requests from the shell, without being authenticated, right?
And how could i implement such a protection in the Flask Application?
Thank you 
Peter S
I created this example few months ago for the good people of flask-jwt-extended component. It should work just fine with octa. https://github.com/vimalloc…
however… login_required decorator is in front of every of the flask endpoints. it means that invalid token will trigger unauthorized response instead of providing the data.
mwei
very nice
Francesco Pegoraro
Hi,
great tutorial! Thanks!
I am having an hard time understanding this line here:
FLASK_APP=$PWD/app/http/api/endpoints.py FLASK_ENV=development pipenv run python -m flask run --port 4433
I am on windows and it doesnt work, what should it do?
Natasha Bieber
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AleRV
stop using windows should work
Julian Rubin
I have a problem in the same part, but on Mac.
ERROR: unknown command “run” , Someone can help me?
Sushma Ramakrishna
Thank you for the tutorial. It was a good learning experience
Allen Ellis
Hi, thanks for the tutorial!
I’m new to react/python (coming from PHP)… but I notice that after following this tutorial, my project directory weighs in at 333MB. Is that standard for this kind of development? How would I write an appropriate .gitignore to ignore all of the various Python and npm dependencies we installed?
Thanks!
Edit: nevermind, looking inside your linked Github repo is helpful. Total size there is just a few hundred KB, and I see a .gitignore was generated at some point inside the http/app directory for the node files.
Edit: learning now about npm’s “build” functionality which I guess just extracts whatever libraries we actually used for this project. It creates a build folder which is just a few hundred kb. My heart rate is coming back down haha
Matt Raible
The node_modules directory in your project won’t be part of your final production code. It just contains code to build your React app. If you run npm run build, it’ll compile your React app to the build directory and that’ll contain all the code you need for production.
Sarah
Hi! Great tutorial, this is really useful for me as I work on learning more web-focused Python. I noticed this link no longer works: https://github.com/oktadeve…. Do you all have the example repo somewhere we could reference? It’d be handy for troubleshooting mine. Thanks!
Matt Raible
Hello Sarah,
This repo was private for some reason. I made it public so you should be able to access it now. Thanks for the heads up!
Mat
Hello
I have a Syntaxt error invalid property id on line 210 in main.chunck which seems to be Home.js on reset_repo.
Have you any idea ?
Regards
Pablo Felgueres
hey Matt, running the tutorial the Login component throws an invalid hook call. I’m not expert on React but trying to debug it seems you’d want to convert that component into a functional one. I’d be great if you posted an updated version of the Login as a functional component! thanks!
Matt Raible
Hello Pablo,
We typically don’t refactor old posts to cover technologies they didn’t use at the time. The good news is we published Build a Simple React Application Using Hooks about a month ago.
Pablo Felgueres
thanks!
Chad Viergever
The delete kudos/update kudos functionality is not working for me. Any thoughts?
Stephen Bradshaw
posting your error helps people help you. post your error.