Task Management Application

This is a task management dashboard application built using Django for the backend and HTML, TailwindCSS, and jQuery for the frontend. Tailwind CSS was added using CDN for faster development.

Commands below use Linux OS.

REQUIRED ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES THAT SHOULD BE IN YOUR .env FILE

1. DEBUG=True
2. SECRET_KEY='django-insecure-785yh)y_f11k_5_j=u55+)@godmh$&sm=!=2yit&rz%t&kd)t2'
3. DATABASE_NAME=<>
4. DATABASE_USER=<>
5. DATABASE_PASS=<>
6. DATABASE_HOST=<>
7. DATABASE_PORT=<>

INCLUDED IN THE REPO

1. Ansible playbook to install django on AWS EC2: Ansible file
2. Docker compose file that will run Prometheus, Grafana, PgAdmin and the Django app: Docker Compose file
3. Kubernetes files start with kub. Here is the K8 deployment for Django: Django K8. There are K8 deployments for Prometheus , Grafana, PgAdmin and PrometheusConfig
4. Terraform IAC script to create an EC2, VPC and RDS instance: Terraform Main script; variables.tf not included

Implementations:

1. Tasks can be Created, Updated or deleted
2. Tasks can be searched, filtered from the dashboard
3. jQuery ajax loading of task is available
4. API to view tasks implemented also

To launch this app on your system:

1. Navigate to your desktop (or any folder of your choice)

   cd Desktop
   

2. Create a new folder/directory called taskproject

   mkdir taskproject
   

3. Navigate into this new folder

   cd taskproject
   

4. Create a new Python Virtual environment in the taskproject folder.

   python3 -m venv ./taskvenv
   

5. Activate this new virtual environment

   source taskvenv/bin/activate
   

6. Clone this git repo

   git clone https://github.com/Jaye-python/taskproject.git
   

7. Move into the taskproject folder which is included in the downloaded repo

   cd taskproject
   

8. Install dependencies; DB uses Django inbuilt SQLite; no need to run migration

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

9. Create superuser account. There is an existing Admin account with email: [email protected] and password lagoslagos

   python manage.py createsuperuser
   

10. Launch application. You may also open the repo in VS Code by running code .

    python manage.py runserver
    

11. Login in to http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/ to manage the app. Admin page has been created to perform CRUD functions for the app
12. To check the API documentation, visit either of these:

    http://127.0.0.1:8000/schema/swagger-ui/#/
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/schema/redoc/
    

13. You can view the Task dashboard from the root URL

    http://127.0.0.1:8000
    

14. You can sign up using the navigation on the right. The app uses email as username. To login, provide your email as username
15. You can upload your profile picture by selecting the Profile Update button on the right
16. From the homepage Task Dashboard, you can Add Task, Modify Tasks, View Task Details, Delete Tasks
17. From the homepage Task Dashboard, you may Search Tasks by their titles, Filter Tasks by priority and sort
18. Click on the Ajax Tasks link on your left to see a page where you may load tasks by clicking the appropriate buttons based on their status and search for tasks async. This page uses jQuery to load tasks and search tasks
19. You may go to following API endpoints to view tasks based on status

    http://127.0.0.1:8000/tasks/in_progress/
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/tasks/completed/
    http://127.0.0.1:8000/tasks/overdue/