- Added `Order` and `OrderItem` models with migrations for managing orders and their details
- Created `CheckoutForm` for validating order data and customer information
- Built templates for order confirmation, checkout success, and emails (HTML and plain text)
- Added logic for email notifications upon successful order placement
- Enhanced shopping cart template with checkout panel integration
- Updated styles and JavaScript for streamlined checkout UX
- Refactored cart view to support item summaries and final totals during checkout
- Implemented JavaScript-based price slider for catalog filtering
- Updated catalog views to handle min/max price inputs and compute slider bounds
- Enhanced templates (`index.html`, `side-bar.html`) with filtering form and updated URLs
- Added CSS for price slider styling and form layout
- Introduced utility functions for URL building and price parsing
- Expanded tests for price filtering, sliders, and sidebar active states
- Updated context processor and header for dynamic navigation with price filters
- Added `Cart` and `CartItem` models with migrations for managing user-specific carts and items
- Developed services for cart-related operations: adding, removing, and updating cart items
- Built specialized templates (`cart.html`) and styled them with new CSS assets (`cart.css`)
- Enabled real-time UI updates via AJAX in shopping cart interactions (`cart.js`)
- Modified header to dynamically display cart link with user authentication awareness
- Added Leaflet-based interactive map to the contacts page and integrated CSS/JS dependencies
- Expanded tests for cart functionality, item detail page cart integration, and contacts page maps
- Implemented `Favorite` model with unique user-item constraint and timestamped records
- Added `favorites:index` and `favorites:toggle` views with AJAX support for toggling favorites
- Built templates and front-end assets for the favorites page and integration with item grids
- Extended header with favorites link and dynamic counter
- Added tests covering models, views, and templates for the favorites functionality
- Updated admin to enable management of favorites via Django admin interface
