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+# Learning (and combining) React and Flask
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+This will be a test repo to contain code from various online tutorials and explanations about React and combining React as a frontend with Flask serving the backend. Initially the repo could be quite messy, I hope to clean everything up to a single folder and app later on. I also intend to focus on React first and move on to React/Flask later.
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+## Goals
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+- [ ] Baby's first React single page application (SPA)
+- [ ] Routing in React
+- [ ] Handling forms
+- [ ] Processing form input with the Flask backend
+- [ ] Trying out UI frameworks for a modern look and feel
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