Task Management REST API

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Developing a robust Task Management API involved several key challenges:

Secure User Authentication: Ensuring that only authenticated users could access and manage their tasks.
Efficient Task Management: Implementing a system that allows users to filter and sort tasks based on multiple parameters such as deadline, priority, and status.
Scalable Architecture: Designing the API to handle large task datasets efficiently and ensuring smooth performance across CRUD operations.
API Documentation: Providing clear and interactive API documentation that allows users and developers to easily test and understand the endpoints.

Secure User Authentication: I implemented JWT (JSON Web Token) authentication to securely manage user sessions. This allows for stateless, scalable authentication, providing users with token-based access to the API.
Efficient Task Management: Using Django REST Framework’s filtering and pagination capabilities, I allowed users to filter tasks by deadline, priority, and status. Sorting options were implemented to enable users to organize tasks effectively.
Scalable Architecture: To handle potentially large task datasets, I optimized the API using pagination and efficient database querying. This approach ensures fast response times even as the number of tasks grows.
API Documentation: I integrated Swagger to automatically generate interactive API documentation. This made the API easy to explore, test, and understand for developers, enhancing its usability.

User Authentication: Secure JWT-based authentication for registering, logging in, and accessing tasks.
Task CRUD Operations: Full support for creating, reading, updating, and deleting tasks.
Task Filtering and Sorting: Users can filter tasks by deadline, priority, and status, and sort tasks to enhance organization.
JWT Token Management: Token-based authentication system with support for token refreshing and secure access to protected routes.
API Documentation: Interactive API documentation with Swagger for easy exploration of endpoints.

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