Documentation task manager with React.js and Django REST API

task manager with React.js and Django REST API

Certainly! Here's a summary of the previous operations to create a task manager app with React.js and connect it with a Django REST API to perform CRUD operations:

1. Set Up the Django Backend:

   • Install Django using pip install django.
   • Create a new Django project using django-admin startproject taskmanager.
   • Create a Django app for your task manager using python manage.py startapp tasks.
   • Define your Django models for the task manager in tasks/models.py.
   • Set up API endpoints in tasks/views.py using Django REST Framework.
   • Create a serializers.py file in the tasks directory to define the serializer for your Task model.
   • Configure the URLs for your API endpoints in tasks/urls.py and include them in the project's urls.py file.

2. Build the React Frontend:

   • Set up a new React.js project using npx create-react-app task-manager-app.
   • Create React components for the task manager app in the src/components directory: TaskList.js, TaskForm.js, and TaskItem.js.
   • Update the components with the necessary code for fetching tasks, creating tasks, and displaying task lists.
   • Implement the necessary HTTP requests using fetch or libraries like Axios to interact with the Django API endpoints.
   • Style and customize the components as desired.
   • Render the components in the App.js file and manage the state as needed.
   • Run the React development server using npm start.

3. Fetch Task Data from the API:

   • In the TaskList component, use useEffect and useState hooks to fetch tasks from the API and store them in the component state.
   • Handle loading states and error cases appropriately while fetching tasks.
   • Display the fetched task data in the component's render method.

4. Implement CRUD Operations:

   • Update the TaskList component to handle task deletion by sending a DELETE request to the API endpoint and refreshing the task list.
   • Update the TaskForm component to handle task creation by sending a POST request to the API endpoint and notifying the parent component about the newly created task.
   • Update the App component to manage the tasks state and propagate changes to child components.

Remember to replace 'http://your-api-url/tasks/' with the actual URL of your Django API endpoint for tasks.

This documentation provides a high-level overview of the steps involved in creating a task manager app with React.js and Django. You can refer to the individual sections for more detailed information and code examples.