Smartnotes

You can have your notes here.

Initialization

1. Create a directory smartnotes
2. Go to that directory and initalize venv python -m venv .
3. Activate the environment source bin/activate
4. pip install django
5. Django-admin startproject smartnotes .
6. Create an empty repository in git and perform below steps in local

git init .
#add .gitignore
git add .
git commit -m "initial commit"
git remote add origin https://github.com/hariiisai/smartnotes.git
git branch -M main
git push -u origin main

Project setup

1. Create a first app called home django-admin startapp home and add 'home' in installed apps of 'settings.py'
2. Create 'home.html' and render 'url:home' to this html by view.home
3. Include 'home.urls' in main url file

Adding Users

1. Before creating users we need to setup database connection so users will be stored
2. To do this we can simply run python manage.py migrate to apply built-in migrations for app(s): admin, auth, contenttypes, sessions.
3. Create a admin user now python manage.py createsuperuser
4. Created a authorised page which can be viewed by loggedin users

ORM

1. Create a new app notes django-admin startapp notes and add it in 'setting.py'
2. Create a model 'notes' in 'models.py' of notes folder
3. To make a relation of this model, we need to make migrations python manage.py makemigrations
4. Perform actual migration python manage.py migrate # The table 'notes' will be created in database
5. Register you model in 'admin.py'
6. Now you can manage 'notes' model from admin page

Dynamic web pages

1. Create a logic(view) to display all notes in 'notes_list.html' and add 'notes.url' in main urls
2. Create a logic to disaply single note

Class based views

1. Rewrite the functions into classes
2. Change the pointing in urls file

Static files

1. Create a new folder 'static' in main project folder and have sepearte folders for css,images...
2. Add the STATICFILES_DIRS in 'settings.py'
3. Create a style.css and load static files in html pages
4. Created a 'base.html' and extends it to other html pages

Django forms

1. Create a logic to add new notes
2. Do not forget to add csrf_token in forms
3. With forms we can add validations, labels, and much more --Not implemeted
4. No need to mention action for this form, if mention it will be hardcodes as action ={% url 'notes/list' %}

Finishing

1. Added notes update,edit,delete options

User specific

1. Added login, logout and signup options

For details about Django built-in views, check out https://ccbv.co.uk/