Todo List

In this challenge we're going to create a basic CRUD app with just a single record type so that you can focus on practicing the basic actions for CRUD.

We'll build a basic TODO app that lets us manipulate a list of Todos that we want to complete. To make things a bit easier, we'll provide the some descriptions for each section of the app. Feel free to look back at the lesson for the day to refresh your memory as well.

This challenge is empty for you to practice building something from scratch. There are many ways we could implement a TODO app. For our purposes, we'll stick to the seven basic actions we learned:

GET list
GET show
GET new
POST create
GET edit
PUT update
DELETE destroy

Release 0: Getting Ready

Start by creating a new virtual environment and then activate it.

python -m venv venv source venv/bin/activate source venv/bin/activate

Once you have your virtual environment up and running you can tell pip to download all the requirements for this app by running pip install -r requirements.txt. Make sure you are in the main directory of the repo (the one with the readme in it).

Create your project, app, models and get started! Let's say a Todo item has a title and description. Feel free to add anything else you feel is crucial for a Todo to have. Next, let's start CRUD!

Release 1: Create

Since we need a way to get records into our system, we'll start with the routes to create new records.

If the user makes a GET request to /todos/new they should:

See a form with the required form fields to create a Todo objet

Submitting the form makes a POST request to /todos:

It should create the new Todo record in the database.
After the new Todo is created, the user should be redirected to view that Todo.

Release 2: Read

Next we need to be able to read Todo records. Let's start with the show action - here are the requirements:

A GET request to /todos/<id> (where id will be a number corresponding to id of the record you want to view) will:

Show the title and description of the Todo
Show a link to edit the existing Todo

A GET request to /todos should:

Show a list of all Todos that exist
Show links to each Todo individually
Show a link to create a new Todo

Release 3: Update

Now that we can list records, let's build the functionality to manipulate those records. A GET to /todos/<id>/edit:

Displays a form with the current title and description already filled out in each form field

Submitting the form:

Updates the existing Todo with the new provided values
Redirects you back to the show page

Release 4: Destroy

Finally, let's give users the ability to destroy an existing Todo. Since we haven't really modeled a way to mark a Todo as complete, we'll use this to complete Todos for the moment.

A POST request to /todos/<id>/delete:

Deletes the existing Todo
Redirects you to the list page

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