This is a Todo app written in Python using the Django framework.
This was a coursework project for Nick Walter's UDEMY course about creating Python and Django applications.
In terms of app functionality, I learned how to display tasks assigned to a user and update their state (from no given priority level to Important) and mark them as Completed.
Conditional rendering of the data, based on the boolean value of Completed,
shows each task on their own respective path (/current and /completed).
I've gotten pretty good at creating views, querying data from an SQL database, and passing that data into a Dictionary for rendering the view. For the UI, I created Template files and passed logic into them. Most of this was based on conditionally rendering data based on user authentication, and I found that more things than you realize need to be buried in form submissions to trigger a POST request (looking at you, logout button!).
Styling for the site was done in Bootstrap 4, so this has really given me a chance to beef up my Bootstrap skills (especially the parts of it that don't inherently make sense). I used one of the Bootstrap examples for creating a cover page and tailored the CSS to fit the image chosen for the cover image.
On my own, I learned how to deploy a Django/Python app to Heroku, and set environment variables so that my secret key was secure and other environment-specific information for the development or production environments. You can visit the deployed app here.
Installation requires you to have Python 3.8 and Django 3 installed.
Install and create a virtual environment using virtualenv:
pip install virtualenv
virtualenv todowoo-env
(If, for some reason, your virtual environment doesn't get activated when it is
created, or you get interrupted/close terminal windows/etc., you can run
source todowoo-env/bin/activate from the same command line to reactivate it.)
Once inside the virtual environement, to deactivate it, simply type
deactivate.
Install the requirements:
pip install -r requirements.txt
You should be good to go!