📝 To-Do List API with Python & Flask

This project is a clean and minimal RESTful API for managing a simple To-Do list, built using Python, Flask, and SQLAlchemy.

🔧 Designed for learning and scalability, this API demonstrates essential CRUD operations — perfect for those beginning backend development or looking to understand how Flask integrates with relational databases.

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🚀 Features

• ✅ Create new tasks
• 🔍 Retrieve all tasks or a specific task by ID
• ♻️ Update task content or completion status
• 🗑 Delete tasks
• 🔒 Modular architecture using Flask Blueprints
• 🧩 SQLAlchemy for ORM and MySQL integration

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🛠 Tech Stack

• Python 3
• Flask
• SQLAlchemy
• MySQL (easily adaptable to PostgreSQL or SQLite)
• REST API best practices

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📁 Project Structure

API-to-do-list-with-python-and-flask/ 
  ├── app.py # Application entry point 
  ├── config/ # Database configuration module 
  │ └── db.py 
  ├── controllers/ # Contains logic for task operations 
  │ └── task_controller.py 
  ├── database/ # Database connection helper 
  │ └── connection.py 
  ├── models/ # SQLAlchemy model(s) 
  │ └── task_model.py 
  ├── routes/ # Flask Blueprints for API routes 
  │ └── task_routes.py 
  └── README.md # Project overview (this file)

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▶️ Getting Started

# 1. Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/josgard94/API-to-do-list-with-python-and-flask.git

# 2. Navigate to the project directory
cd API-to-do-list-with-python-and-flask

# 3. Create a virtual environment & install dependencies
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

# 4. Set up your MySQL database
# Update config/db.py with your credentials

# 5. Run the app
python app.py

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📬 API Endpoints

Method	Endpoint	Description
GET	/tasks	List all tasks
GET	/tasks/<id>	Retrieve a task by ID
POST