Todo App Created
March 15, 2025
I created a GitHub branch to save the todo progress while in development. Here is what I have implemented so far:
- Started the webapps project
- Created the todo app
- Created model for a single todo list
- Implemented the form and list of the todo list
I am only working on the backend with a very simple frontend since I am not very good at CSS. I will deal with that later.
The Todo model consists of the following fields:
- date that is filled automatically when a new list is added
- deadline that displays a nice calendar widget in the form and can be left blank
- text where the todo text can be written
- done, a boolean field to register the status of the todo item
I included messages to alert the user if the todo item was saved or not or if there was an error in the form. This is displayed as a list of items in case there are more than one message in the future. This would look quite nice with CSS.
I was having issues with the form, where it was not letting me save the data when the date field was left blank even though the model included this condition. It took me a while to find the answer. Turns out I only needed to add a required = False condition in the widget form. Now it works.
The next thing to do is to implement the ability to mark a todo item as done. I think this should be done with JavaScript, which I am not very good at either.