📚 ProjectManager — Backend Documentation

Welcome! This repository contains a Django REST Framework backend that uses MongoDB and JWT authentication to manage Projects and Tasks.

This documentation is structured so you can either learn Django from scratch or understand how this specific project was built step by step.

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📖 Table of Contents

1. 🎓 Learning Django & DRF

Start here if you're new to Django.

Covers the fundamentals — virtual environments, project setup, file structure, models, views, URLs, serializers, REST Framework, MongoDB fields, JWT, and how to manage dependencies.

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2. 🛠️ My Django Project — Step by Step

Start here if you want to recreate this project.

A "build with me" walkthrough — from scaffolding the project skeleton, to configuring settings, to writing the auth module, to building the full CRUD project/task system. Every file explained, every code snippet included.

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🚀 Quick Start (TL;DR)

# 1. Clone and enter the project
git clone <repo_url>
cd "ProjectManager Backend"

# 2. Create & activate virtual environment
python -m venv venv
.\venv\Scripts\activate          # Windows
# source venv/bin/activate       # Mac/Linux

# 3. Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# 4. Create .env file (same level as manage.py)
# CONNECTION_STRING=mongodb+srv://<user>:<pass>@cluster.mongodb.net/
# SECRET_KEY=your-secret-key

# 5. Run the server
python manage.py runserver

📖 For the full setup guide, see My Project → Scaffolding