WEBSTACK PORTFOLIO PROJECT for ALX SE Africa,2024

MINALEX Todo Flask App

Overview new

The Todo Flask App is a powerful task management tool designed to streamline your daily activities and enhance productivity. It provides a convenient, one-stop solution for users to organize tasks, discuss concerns, prioritize tasks, find quick resolutions to their pending to-do items and achieve their goals before due dates. Whether you're looking to organize your daily activities or keep track of project-related tasks, this app has you covered.

From this project, users can get a feel of what the web application is all about by having a "Logged Out Experience" and the routes that can be assessed by the user or customer includes:

The landing page
The Add new task tab
The Review and edit task tab

Key Features

Efficient Task Management:** Seamlessly organize and prioritize your tasks for enhanced productivity.
Collaborative Environment:** Foster collaboration by discussing tasks and sharing updates with team members.
Swift Resolutions:** Quickly resolve pending issues and tasks to stay on top of your commitments.
User-Friendly Interface:** Intuitive design for a seamless and enjoyable task management experience.
Performs CRUD Operations:** Add new tasks,Read/list all tasks, update task details, and mark tasks as complete and can delete tasks.
Prioritization:** Prioritize tasks by choosing between high, medium and low in that section.
Persistence:** Your tasks are stored persistently, so you can access them across sessions and ensure to meet up with the due dates.

How It Works

Task Creation: Easily create and manage tasks with just a few clicks.
Discussion Forum: Engage in discussions with team members to get insights and updates on tasks.
Prioritization: Prioritize tasks based on urgency and importance.
Task Relegation: Assigning task to individual or teams.
Task Completion: Mark tasks as complete when they are done.

DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

Some of the tools used for software development of this app are:

Flask: A web framework for Python that simplifies the development of web applications.
SQLite3 Module: A built-in Python module providing an interface to SQLite databases.
HTML: HyperText Markup Language, used for structuring and presenting content on the web.
CSS: Cascading Style Sheets, used for styling and layout of web pages.
Jinja: Jinja2, a template engine for Python, commonly used with Flask to generate dynamic content.
SQLite Team Viewer: A tool for viewing and managing SQLite databases.
DataGrip App: An integrated development environment (IDE) for working with databases, including SQLite.

Getting Started

Installation: Clone the repository and install dependencies.
```
git clone https://github.com/your-username/MINALEX.git
```

Install virtual Environment

sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade -y sudo apt install virtualenv -y

Creating a Virtual Environment

python3 -m venv portfolio

Activating the virtual Environment

on a unix based operating system

source portfolio/bin/activate (portfolio) /home/nerd $

on a windows based operating system

portfolio\Scripts\activate.bat (portfolio) C:\Users\nerd>

Deactivating a Virtual Environment

(portfolio) /home/nerd $ deactivate

INSTALLING DEPENDENCIES

We have saved the dependencies in a file named requirement.txt

(portfolio) /home/nerd $ pip freeze > requirements.txt

blinker==1.7.0
click==8.1.7
flask==3.0.0
greenlet==3.0.2
importlib-metadata==7.0.0
itsdangerous==2.1.2
Jinja2==3.1.2
MarkupSafe==2.1.3
typing-extensions==4.9.0
werkzeug==3.0.1
zipp==3.17.0

INSTALL DEPENDENCIES

(portfolio) /home/nerd $ pip install -r requirements.txt

RUNNING THE APPLICATION

To run MINALEX Task Manager application using command line, do the following:

Step One

(portfolio) /home/nerd $ python app.py

Step Two

(portfolio) /home/nerd $ FLASK_APP=app.py (portfolio) /home/nerd $ FLASK_DEBUG=1 (portfolio) /home/nerd $ flask run

Both will give you the output:

Serving Flask app 'app'
Debug mode: on WARNING: This is a development server. Do not use it in a production deployment. Use a production WSGI server instead.
Running on all addresses (0.0.0.0)
Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000
Running on http://172.28.87.20:5000 Press CTRL+C to quit
Restarting with stat
Debugger is active!
Debugger PIN: 659-121-357

AUTHOR

Christiana Aghara - GitHub / Gmail

License Public Domain. No copy write protection

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