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.

• ✅ 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

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

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) 

# 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