Project: Build a Django App

The brief

Build a real app — a blog, a task manager, a notes app, or a simple shop — using everything you have learned.

Requirements

• A project with at least one app and a model.
• Migrations run; data manageable in the admin.
• Pages to list and view records (templates + ORM).
• A form to add records (with {% csrf_token %}).
• Edit and delete (full CRUD).
• A simple login protecting the create/edit/delete pages.

Build it in order

Do not try to build everything at once. Follow these steps in order — each one builds on the last, and each comes straight from a lesson you have already done:

1. Set up the project and an app, then run the dev server (the Setting Up Django lesson).
2. Write your model in models.py, then run makemigrations and migrate to create the table (the Models & Migrations lesson).
3. Create a superuser and register the model in admin.py, then add a few records through /admin (the Admin & ORM lesson).
4. Build a list page: a view that calls objects.all() and a template that loops over the records (the Templates and CRUD lessons).
5. Add a create form with {% csrf_token %} and a view that saves the submitted data (the CRUD & Forms lesson).
6. Add edit and delete views to finish full CRUD.
7. Add login and put @login_required on the create, edit and delete views so only signed-in users can change data (the Users & Authentication lesson).