Task Mate | A collaborative team task board 📅

• Full-stack Flask app for sharing and scheduling custom tasks with role-based access modes
  
• Live demo: https://taskmate.pythonanywhere.com

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Tech Stack

Component	Tech Used
Backend	Python, Flask
Data	SQLite, SQL
Frontend Logic	JavaScript, Jinja Templating
UI/Styling	Bootstrap
Deployment	PythonAnywhere

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Overview

• Flask-based dashboard for sharing and scheduling custom tasks
• Features include:
  • Create, modify, delete, bookmark, group, and un/hide tasks
  • Share task groups with other users for seamless collaboration
  • Add, remove, or update access modes ('Editor' or 'Viewer') for each team member
  • User authentication (login, logout, registration) and filtered search functionality
  • Uses a relational SQLite database for data management
  • HTML templates rendered using Jinja, with a styled interface built using CSS, JavaScript, and Bootstrap

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Table of Contents

• Demo
• Running the App Manually

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Visual Demo

Home Page

Below is lisa123's dashboard of grouped, shareable tasks

Share Group: Add Members

Here, lisa123 is the owner of this group

Group Member View -- Editor Access Mode

ryan123 is a member of lisa123's group with editor access mode

Updating Task as a Group Member

ryan123's updates to tasks in lisa123's shared group will be reflected for everyone in that group, including jimmy2020

Group Member View -- Viewer Access Mode

In this example, ryan123 is a member of lisa123's group with viewer access mode

Option to Leave Group

jimmy2020 can optionally leave any shared group

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Running the App Manually

1. Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/jschhie/Task-Mate.git [folderNameHere]

2. Navigate into the folder:

cd [folderNameHere]

3. Create and activate virtual environment (venv):

• This project assumes you have python v3.11 or higher
• To isolate the project's dependencies:

/usr/local/bin/python3.11 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

4. Install the required packages:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

5. Configure environment variables

5a. Create a .env file in the root directory:

vim .env

5b. Open the .env file and define the following:

FLASK_SECRET_KEY=any_random_string_here

6. Run the Flask app:

python3 main.py

The user can then access and interact with the web app at http://127.0.0.1:5000/ via any web browser.