📝 Django DRF ToDo List API

A simple and functional ToDo List API built with Django REST Framework.
This project allows users to create, read, update, and delete their personal todo items.

🚀 Features

• Full CRUD functionality for todo items
• Both Function-Based Views and Class-Based Views are implemented
• Usage of:
  • mixins
  • generics
  • viewsets
• Multiple authentication methods:
  • Simple authentication
  • Token-based authentication
  • JWT (JSON Web Token) authentication
• Integrated with Swagger for better and standardized API documentation

🔐 Authentication

The project supports three authentication mechanisms:

1. Basic Authentication — suitable for testing purposes
2. Token Authentication — provides a token upon login
3. JWT Authentication — recommended for production and modern frontend integrations

📚 API Documentation

Swagger UI is included for interactive API exploration and easier frontend-backend collaboration.
You can access the Swagger docs by navigating to: http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/schema/swagger/

🛠️ Technologies Used

• Python
• Django
• Django REST Framework
• drf-yasg (for Swagger)
• djangorestframework-simplejwt

✅ How to Run

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/AliMRBS/todo.git
   cd todo
   

2. Create and activate a virtual environment

   python -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
   

3. Install dependencies

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

4. Run migrations

   python manage.py migrate
   

5. Start the development server

   python manage.py runserver
   
   

Author

Seyed Ali Mirabbasi