How I Built a To Do App with JavaScript — Features, Challenges & What's Next

1.Introduction Every developer has that one project they keep coming back to — the classic Todo App. It sounds simple on the surface, but building one from scratch teaches you a surprising amount about DOM manipulation, state management, browser storage, and UI design. In this blog, I'll walk you through how I built my own Todo App using pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — no frameworks, no libraries (except a little confetti surprise). I'll talk about the features I built, the decisions I made along the way, and the improvements I plan to add in the future. 2.Why a Todo App? Before diving in, you might be wondering — why another Todo App? The honest answer is that it's one of the best exercises for a frontend developer. A Todo App forces you to think about: How to add, update, and remove items dynamically in the DOM How to persist data so it survives a page refresh How to track state and reflect it visually in real time How to style a UI that actually feels good to use It's the perfect p