How I Did It!

You can find a walkthrough of how I build this application from scratch on Reference blog

Instructions

Below are the installing and running procedues

Installing

1. make sure you have python, npm, and pip installed on your machine. For this project, I used : npm v4.6.1, pip v18.0, python v3.6.2
2. Enter in to the directary hello_template/templates/static/ and run the command npm install. This will download and install all the dependencies listed in package.json.
3. In the static directory, start the npm watcher to build the front end code with the command npm run watch
4. Create a python virtualenv(Optional)
5. Install flask with the command $ pip install flask
6. Install Reactjs with the command $ npm i react react-dom --save-dev

Running

1. Go to the root directory and start the server with python run.py
2. If all is working correctly, you will be given an address http://127.0.0.1:5000/ which you can open in your favorite browser and see our application running and displaying “Hello React!”

Flask JWT References

1. https://medium.com/trabe/user-authentication-with-flask-jwt-be0e6f457dff
2. https://flask-jwt-extended.readthedocs.io/en/stable/basic_usage/