Is JavaScript better than Flask?

Dash uses React under the hood to render the user interface you see when you load a web page created with Dash . Because React allows you to write your user interface in encapsulated components that manage their own state, it is easy to split up parts of code for Dash too.

“Lightweight”, “Python” and “Minimal” are the key factors why developers consider Flask; whereas “Can be used on frontend/backend”, “It’s everywhere” and “Lots of great frameworks” are the primary reasons why JavaScript is favored .

Thanks to Flask, a backend this compact and controlled is capable of handling all the data processing required to support a full-featured frontend finance tracking app for fiscal fanatics, like me! I hope you’ve enjoyed my article on Flask as a compact backend development tool for Python.

We now have a complete Flask + React app that uses Flask to collect data from a SQlite database and React to render output on the browser . If you followed along as you did, you should have output similar to the one below on the browser.

Is Flask backend or frontend? – Quora. In web development, there is only one “front end” language, and that’s JavaScript (and things compiled to JavaScript, like TypeScript). Everything else runs on a server somewhere, not in the browser, and that makes it “back end”. Flask, which is written in Python, is back end .