pierregoaer / to_do_app

Create simple to do lists and checks the items as you go.

Simple To-Do list app 🎨

This app is deployed here.

This is a simple Flask App that lets users create to-do lists and mark their items as done as they go.

app.py is the python file to run.

👨🏼‍🎓 Learnings:

1. This project was a great opportunity to use HTML forms and GET/POST requests
2. This app was a good way to get more comfortable manipulating databases: creating new elements, editing or deleting them, and ordering elements, so they would appear chronologically
3. It was also a good design exercise to find a way to keep the app very minimalist while having all the functionalities I find mandatory (seeing completed items, easily checking tasks dynamically, editing/deleting tasks)

🚀 Tech and tools:

This app was built using 3 technologies:

• Flask: microframework for web development
• SQLAlchemy: store to-do items
• PostgreSQL: depending on when you are seeing this, I will have switched the SQLAlchemy DB to PostgreSQL.

Deployment:

• cPanel

🔜 Things I would improve:

• Add a priority variable to each to-do item: in addition to ordering items chronologically, I think it is beneficial to have a priority set for each item to know which ones should be done first
• Rework design: the design is a little too minimalist and not really mobile friendly at this time

⚙️ How does it work:

Nothing simpler than a to-do app but here it is:

1. Add new to-do items to your list and set their due date
2. Click "Add To-Do"
3. Your To-Dos are now displayed chronologically
4. Click the edit button if you need to edit the name or the due date
5. Check your to-dos as you go and get your day going