A modern expense tracking solution built with Spring Boot, React, and MySQL.

• Created a comprehensive full-stack expense tracking web application, enabling efficient day-to-day financial management.
• Integrated multi-role functionality with user authentication to ensure secure access for both users and administrators, including features such as sign-in, sign-up, password reset, and email verification.
• Designed user-friendly dashboards for managing transactions, tracking upcoming/recurring expenses, generating monthly summaries and statistics, and overseeing budgets.
• Added management features such as search, filter, and pagination for enhanced usability.

• IDE, for example:
  • Visual Studio Code
    • Install extension packs for Java and Spring boot in vscode. These will take care of building the springboot backend.
      • Java Extension Pack: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vscjava.vscode-java-pack
      • Spring Boot Extension Pack: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vmware.vscode-boot-dev-pack
  • IntelliJ IDEA (Community or Ultimate edition)

• Java Development Kit (JDK) 21 or higher

• Node.js 20.x or higher
• npm 10.x or higher

• Docker and Docker Compose (included with Docker Desktop)
• Database Client, for example:
  • MySQL Workbench
  • DBeaver (Universal Database Tool)
  • TablePlus

# macOS (using Homebrew)
brew install git

# Windows
Download and install from https://git-scm.com/

# macOS (using Homebrew or your IDE or https://www.oracle.com/sa/java/technologies/downloads/)
brew install openjdk

# Windows
Download and install JDK from https://www.oracle.com/sa/java/technologies/downloads/

# macOS (using Homebrew)
brew install node

# Windows
Download and install from https://nodejs.org/

• Download and install Docker Desktop from Docker's official website
• Ensure Docker Desktop is running before proceeding with the project setup

# Start the MySQL database using Docker Compose
docker-compose up -d

• Run ExpenseTrackerApplication.java using your IDE

# Navigate to the frontend directory
cd frontend

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Start the development server
npm start

You can log in using the following users:

• [email protected] / testing1234
• [email protected] / testing 1234

1. Backend API should be running on http://localhost:8080
2. Frontend application should be accessible at http://localhost:3000
3. MySQL database should be running on port 3306

1. Port Conflicts: Ensure ports 8080, 3000, and 3306 are not in use by other applications
2. Docker Issues: Make sure Docker Desktop is running before starting the application
3. Database Connection: Verify MySQL container is running using docker ps
4. Java Version: Ensure JAVA_HOME is properly set to JDK 21