Use Django to Create a Todo List App

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[@camelcasesprogramming992]

I was making a ToDo app and was stuck at the database part, but you removed my problems flawlessly and yes, Your video duration is perfect ! sometimes long duration videos just are boring but yours was just perfect, i have no words to say ! THANK YOU VERY MUCH ! Hoping to see more videos like this 🤩

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I watch a lot of Django content. But your teaching style is stellar. I will join your website as soon as I Finnish my current set of udemy Django courses.

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Hi Anthony, your Django playlist is frickin' awesome, can't wait to complete all of it. Thanks a lot🙏🏻

[@ayushiagarwal6996]

This was the best video so far on django!

[@fahimhasnainfahad6637]

Probably best todo app on django. Keep on going man

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As usual, great job on this course Anthony!!

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its truth that you are a very good teacher please upload more project of django

[@jamikhabir492]

Hi! great video!.. You are very detailed and thorough! 28:22 The color does not change when I use the "list-group-item" command in css. Could you inform me of anything i'm doing wrong?

[@Regina.Clarke]

Very good job; I will try this out! I just tried a different tutorial on a todo app, but this adds many features that would be great to learn! I’m now a subscriber!

[@Taziamoma]

This was beautifully done. This was my first django app and I was really easy to understand and follow, great job!

[@santanasta82]

Perfect! You are great! Congratulations for your videos! You are objective, you go direct to the point! So, your videos have a good duration! I have one suggestion: For each video you create, you could create another video just talking about the tests for the code you used. For example, this video above would have another video that you talk about the tests. I think a second video is good because if it was only one video it would be very long. And you can focus only on the code to make things work, leaving the tests code to the second video.

[@prettyprinted]

Hey Bruno, that's a good idea. I've been thinking about how to incorporate tests into the videos. I'll see what I can do about that.

[@phillipdane7852]

Great videos, thank you! I second another comment for taking a brief pause in between key steps. That time is crucial for letting the concepts sink (especially when hopping between a template, view, urls, and ultimately testing in the browser).

[@prettyprinted]

I'll consider that for future videos. Thanks for the feedback.

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Thanks man! You're such a good tutor.

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You're welcome! Thanks for watching.

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[@prettyprinted]

Glad I could help!

[@cooleekova]

Hi Anthony, thanks a lot for this video and for all of your job🙏🏻 I am a big fan ☺

[@MeganeFosteryukina]

This is exactly what I was searching , thank you

[@Tony-tu8uz]

Hello, Anthony! thank U for your videos! they are like clean water in the dessert! can You explain what do you mean under 'Client side staff' on 23:35, by which we can avoid reloading a page?

[@prettyprinted]

You can use things like jQuery, React, Vue, Angular, plain JavaScript, etc to change parts of the page without reloading it.

[@mateusguimaraesalves3852]

Very, very and very good buddy! Congratulations and thank you! Success for you!

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Thank you so much!!! I am really blessed to have tutorials for free from guys like you and sentdex..

[@placideirandora7405]

Thank you very much for this productive tutorial. It has really improved my Python Django skills! You're such a good tutor. Everything was explained clearly.

[@АлексейАвдеев-ж2е]

I think, couple of things left unsaid. What if save or delete methods raise an error? What if submitted form appears to be not valid?

[@kratosboi1236]

really easy and nice tutorial....thank you

[@nancychaudhry3623]

Another really great video!

[@johnswire74]

Thanks for this and your other Django tutorials Anthony - I really appreciate your work.

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anthony . thx for this tut , where do you host your pretty printed website ?? and whats the price for monthly or yearly plans ??

[@prettyprinted]

I use a service called Teachable. It costs $100 a month.

[@bijoysaraf650]

Well explained! Very clear and succinct. Thank you.

[@sanfarans]

Guess I'm late, but I have a question. What would it take to make this app unique for each user? Currently it looks the same for everyone visiting the site and I would want each user to have their personal, private list. Is there a way to make it in Django without implementing whole user authentication stuff?

[@lofilife4325]

26:24 my form isn't working. I can't see any result on the terminal

[@yifus237]

Just want to let you know your work is a great help to me! Thank you so much!

[@prettyprinted]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching!

[@okprogrammer]

please also tells about the basic stuffs . Like adding template and static files

[@prettyprinted]

Will do!

[@mscgeoinformatics]

Hi. Thanks for the tutorials. The forms I have created doesn't align properly. Do I need to modify the index.html which I had downloaded from your git repository. The file content is same as that of your model. Still the form is not aligned, and the Todo list is not visible. Similar thing had happened in case of the first tutorial too

[@fideloruko4160]

Thanks again Antony, but i'm kind of stuck .My loop in if else doesn't sync with the completed like yours where i'm i going wrong your i mean they all look the same completed ones are not canceled.

[@prettyprinted]

It's really hard to say without seeing what you're doing, but make sure there are no hidden errors anyway. Take a look at the console and try messing around with the if statement to make sure it's actually being executed.

[@abigailorone3153]

hey Anthony. where did u get the base file that has index and static?

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Someone made it for me.

[@kevinochieng5625]

Wonderful Tutorial man, thanks a bunch

[@vigneshks1948]

Thanks for the tutorial, pretty printed..Learning a lot,will there be a tutorial on django rest framework in future with real examples?

[@prettyprinted]

Yes.

[@K-IT-SubhanshiRawat]

does this code use the concept of linked lists?

[@vdfam]

Thanks for the video. I think we can save what we did today or yesterday. And at weekend we can export list what we did for a week (month, year).

[@prettyprinted]

That's a good idea for a feature for the app. Thanks for watching.

[@saadimelek6653]

can i use simple form ? from html without form.py ?

[@safimasood6116]

Thanks for such a wonderful tutorial

[@Varmasangaraju4444]

Thanks for the tutorial. Please can you make video on how users can login and make their own Todo list(one user should not have access to other users todo list)

[@prettyprinted]

That's a good idea. I'll consider that. Thanks.

[@awfuldesigns]

Great tutorial mate! best django youtuber out there! I only have one question. please :( im really having a hard time on the primary key. Is "todo_id" the default id for django? if it is. why is it throwing an error in my views. thank you so much! I will really appreciate any answers.

[@prettyprinted]

The default id will always be just 'id'. Normally you use something like todo_id when you are using it as a foreign key in another table.

[@xtremehackerzpro9511]

Nice video, you can use also new_todo = Todo(text=form.cleaned_data['text']) which is much safer... ModelForm is a more easiest way to create form from a model.

[@prettyprinted]

Yeah, you're right. I had a brain fart when I did that. As for modelform, I released a video on that today.

[@themindstorm9947]

Hi, I had a question about Django and database migrations. How do you update a model? For instance, if I create a model, migrate it to the database, then decide to add another field, what is the easiest way to update the table and make the changes?

[@prettyprinted]

You just have to make the migrations and again and run migrate.

[@drcod3r329]

why u arent work with dark theme i barley can c the file names

[@moinguys]

Thank you for the video. When you implement links like this than you are redirected to this page after the database is changed. However, you are redirected at the start of the site (but maybe I was doint something at the bottom). I used anchors in order to direct the user to the appropriate place. Is there a better way to do this? I need to use javascript in order to achieve this, don't I?

[@prettyprinted]

If you want to have a true single page app where you don't actually load new pages or refresh the entire page, then you'll need to use JavaScript instead of regular anchor links.

[@DanielRodriguez-eh4rt]

Could you tell me which text editor are you using?, please

[@Banydian]

Thanks!

[@ДмитрийШелухин-н7й]

Many thanks you for all of you do.

[@nylukkulyn8498]

Hi Anthony! Thanks for this tutorial, so far perfectly clear and useful. I have a question though: why do you have localhost:8000/add when you show the behaviour of the @require_POST? shouldn't it be localhost:8000/todo/add according with the urls(dot)py that we have?

[@prettyprinted]

In the path that points to the todo.urls.py, I'm not matching against todo in the endpoint, so I can use /add.

[@nylukkulyn8498]

You're right, I thought you had it the other way, sorry. Another question: what if you don't want to delete unless you hit the button, I mean not trough typing in the url directly in the browser, is there any special require that could do that?

[@prettyprinted]

If you restrict the view for delete to POST and use a form submit when you click the button, you can do it. Another option is using an AJAX call from JavaScript when the button gets clicked.

[@ncegamncedicbayana9912]

Hi , on my index page i am failing to get the list of the todo activities.

[@AngelTaylorgang809]

the AddTodo function got me so confused :( 22:50 , excellent video thought :D

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[@JoseGarcia-lw8gf]

Thanks, I'm new to Django, but this tutorial is an excellent beginnig.Great job, I appreciate it!

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[@mathewsjose1990]

Awesome Video ... Subscribed ..Keep up the good work .

[@prettyprinted]

Thanks, I appreciate it!

[@vladvald864]

You could have get the todolist from ToDoIst app, it would be more interesting. But anyway this video deserves like!

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[@jorgegutierrez-fr1ub]

very useful video...I learned a lot...good job

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[@PakelisViniu]

Hello, I am getting "Reverse for 'add' not found. 'add' is not a valid view function or pattern name." error once I try to access server to index.html. What could be the problem?

[@prettyprinted]

Did you add the name on the url in your urls.py?

[@carolinaochoa4575]

Write instead of {% url 'add' %} {% url 'todo:add' %} the last way worked for me.

[@recepozturk6711]

Thanks for your effort.. Its exactly a great tutorial for a short time.

[@prettyprinted]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching!

[@victorkeynote6301]

in the completeTodo part when i click an item on todo list instead of the item getting completed i get an error, 'value error, The view todo.views.completeTodo didn't return an HttpResponse object. It returned None instead.'

[@prettyprinted]

Every view function must have a return statement at the end that returns something like HttpResponse or render.

[@absarbhutta638]

Make a video on class base views

[@anky137339]

Hello , can I use Mongo DB with Django , already have Collections in Mongo, want to query the Collections and give results to user in Django FE. Will take input from user from Django FE --> run query from Mongo Aggregations--> display result in Django FE

[@prettyprinted]

Yes, you can use Mongo with Django. I plan on making videos how to do so soon.

[@anky137339]

@@prettyprinted thanks a lot

[@tahseenrahman2922]

Hey.. I was wondering of undoing the completed task. I tried a something but it didn't work. Can you help with it?

[@tahseenrahman2922]

What I mean is if I click on a completed task, it should again go to uncompleted form. I hope you understand. (opposite of what's happening when we mark a task as complete.)

[@thehoneybadger1995]

What have you tried? I managed to do it by always having a link around the list items, and setting the completion status to the opposite (False -> True, and True -> False) in the view.

[@SunCheeez]

@Pretty Printed Exception Value: Reverse for 'complete' with arguments '(1,)' and keyword arguments '{}' not found. 1 pattern(s) tried: ['complete/'] Please, help

[@prettyprinted]

Did you pass the item id with the complete argument in the reverse function?

[@VinodGouda]

Awesome video on Django 2.0 and Python 3.

[@prettyprinted]

Thanks for watching!

[@VinodGouda]

I am looking for video on Django 2.0 i.e Same example with Ajax calls instead of forms.

[@prettyprinted]

I'll probably cover that soon.

[@VinodGouda]

Pretty Printed thanks.

[@akshayabaskaran9983]

Thank you so much for the awesome work. Best explanation ever :)

[@shafinhaque2179]

Hi, Do you have a course on django in Udemy ?

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No, I only have courses on my site: courses.prettyprinted.com

[@carolinaescobar4763]

what is my username when i try to log into admin? the email we created with the superuser?

[@celloucisse7548]

log in with your username that you entered at the beginning when you executed the commands: python manage.py createsuperuser

[@celloucisse7548]

like Username (leave blank to use 'dell'): admin admin is my Username

[@shahidullahmiazi]

Please, edit this app and add herewith "Task history". User may find out previous Task by clicking date. Thanks.

[@ibochenko]

Awesome video! Explained a lot ot me. Thank you!

[@prettyprinted]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching.

[@SunCheeez]

How to write a test for this todo app?

[@prettyprinted]

I'll cover that in a future video.

[@rbmdesenvolvimento]

Very good, thank you!

[@bhismaosti7949]

Please, provide me a template . I have not found.

[@fideloruko4160]

located in github link then download zip

[@ImmediatelyLeaveYT]

thank you so much!!

[@vickneshg1053]

Cannot found bs/js/jquery.min.js And bs/js/bootstrap.min.js........anyone help me to solve this problem

[@madeerwinardiantha6699]

Thanks for your awesome explanation on the video. I became more understand with Django (y)

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Awesome video ever seen. Long Way to go.

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What the command prompt?

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The thing you use to run commands like python filename.py.

[@vickneshg1053]

Amazing work hats off u man ☺☺☺☺☺☺☺

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Very much informative

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Great job!

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[@ahmedsamra1320]

i am happy during learning that thank you

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[@lofilife4325]

hello anybody help please !! reverse for 'complete' with argument'(1') not found. 1 pattern() tried

[@shadow-yj3km]

href="{% url 'complete' todo_id=Todo.id %}

[@shadow-yj3km]

@Rishabh Mishra href="{% url 'complete' todo_id=Todo.id %} hope this may work..

[@Quantum-o5f]

Thank u very much, dude!

[@prettyprinted]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching.

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Yeah, you're doing great job! Thanks for this kind of stuff :)

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Thanks, I appreciate it!

[@KokoKoko-hz9cd]

Nice men. Thanks so much !

[@satisharvapalli3457]

Hey very much thank full to you Anthony. your videos r a lot to me.

[@prettyprinted]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching.

[@nikhilbhardwaj6055]

that was really amazing but why don't you use Generic Views

[@prettyprinted]

Just wanted to keep it simple for the example.

[@ytlagu2010]

Greate stuff

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Thanks for watching!

[@sudipsingh1188]

Understood a lot of concepts.....nyc

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[@sarthaksrivastava927]

cool

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[@dopeking2355]

thanks man

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[@dodokwak]

even without JS!

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Yep!

[@mosemulondo6524]

That was cool

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Thanks for watching!

[@kausalgautam4527]

templete not found // its cause?

[@prettyprinted]

How is your template directory set up?

[@kausalgautam4527]

similar to yours....

[@saharamanson1970]

Awesome.............

[@ИльяФедоров-к4ц]

Good job! Thanks a lot! But I want you to stop for some seconds after you stop edit code - need some time to take a pause and edit my own code. Thanks!

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[@Omni_G]

Hi, I'm new to Django and Python and have found your tutorials to be really helpful. I would like to ask one thing however, In this video, you used: @require_POST # What this does is that addToDo only accepts POST requests def addToDo(request): form = TodoForm(request.POST) if form.is_valid(): new_todo = Todo(text=request.POST['text']) # 'text' is from forms.py new_todo.save() return redirect('index') --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- However in your guestbook video, you used: def sign(request): if request.method == 'POST': form = CommentForm(request.POST) if form.is_valid(): new_comment = Comment(name=request.POST['name'], comment=request.POST['comment']) new_comment.save() return redirect('index') else: form = CommentForm() return render(request, "guestbook/sign.html", {'form': form}) I would like to ask, what exactly are the differences between the two and when do I use the first and when do I use the second? And if possible, could you do a video on how to perform a soft delete where instead of deleting the records in the database as well, the date is recorded instead

[@prettyprinted]

With @request_POST, the view only accepts POST requests. GET requests won't work. In the other view, it accepts both, so it checks for each one. I'll look into the soft delete thing. That's a good idea.

[@Omni_G]

Alright, I got that part, but when do I use the one that only allows POST and when do I use the one that accepts GET and POST? Thank you! I'm hoping you could look into soft delete for Django REST as well and for like Foreign Key where instead of on_delete=models.CASCADE it's like on_delete=models.SOFT_DELETE? I've tried out plenty of sites like Medium, but to me, they were just too vague and didn't really explain much :(

[@prettyprinted]

It depends on how you design your app. If want everything handled in one view then you can or if you want a separate one for GET and POST then you can have two views. Generally, one view works when there is a lot of overlap between GET and POST. And I'll consider doing a soft delete video.

[@Omni_G]

Alright!! Thanks for being so helpful!