project: Django - exposing a REST api with a real database
Expose a simple TODO list api using Django. Take a look at this first:
This is about apis. Please don’t make a pretty frontend. Or even an ugly frontend. Just expose an api.
Here is what you need to do:
- create a Django project (in a python3.7 venv)
- create some models and use them to set up a database. Make one model called TodoItem. Is should have a title and a description only
- turn the “admin” interface on and take a look around
- create some REST endpoints that allow a person to:
- add a TODO item
- delete a TODO item
- edit a todo item
- list all TODO items
Next I want you to be able to update the models and see how that effects your database migrations.
Hint: If you find yourself deleting migration files: You are doing it wrong.
- Add a ‘done’ boolean column to the TodoItem
- see how that effects your migrations
- update your REST endpoints accordingly