Expense Tracker

Is your discretionary spending creeping up? Do you even know how much you’re spending on Uber Eats per month? I know what you’re thinking -> I’ll track my expenses. Really? Will you spend hours per week listing out each of your expenses and laboriously putting it into that clunky spreadsheet?

Fear not!! Enter as little or as much expenses as you like. We’ll crunch the numbers and figure out your average expenses. We’ll give you monthly averages over weeks, months and years. We’ll show you a nice chart so you can see things visually also!!

Technology

• React JS
• Python Django
• Docker
• Nginx
• SQLite

Get Started

• Seed a DB

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python manage.py migrate

• Add a .env file to the root folder with a SECRET_KEY and DEBUG set to TRUE

echo "SECRET_KEY=$(openssl rand -base64 32)" > .env
echo "DEBUG=TRUE" >> .env

• Install app

docker compose build
docker compose up

how to set up postgres in python.config https://www.1strategy.com/blog/2017/05/23/tutorial-django-elastic-beanstalk/ linux extras https://stackoverflow.com/a/63204453 Change to t3 micro in command line eb create --single -db -db.engine postgres -db.i db.t3.micro Change namespace for staticfiles to https://stackoverflow.com/a/63156811 Change how you run migrate https://stackoverflow.com/a/63074854

Progress

Visit the live website on: https://web-expense-tracker.herokuapp.com/

• Sign up with email and password\n
• Enter your expenses and watch the totals increase\n
• Store the type of expense and/or allow filtering by type\n
• Connect to Django Database
• Allow deleting records without refreshing whole page
• Add formsets, to add multiple expenses at one time.
• Add logic to estimate your expenses per month, and a top summary bar.
• Add diagrams showing history of expense

Integrated Django & React App

React has been integrated into the Django App. Refer post https://dev.to/shakib609/deploy-your-django-react-js-app-to-heroku-2bck for details.

Development

• Run python manage.py runserver in the root directory
• For now, you need to authenticate via the standard Django server localhost:8000/
• Then for hot reloading, run cd reactapp; npm start and navigate to localhost:3000

Get EB cli on path

Note: To complete installation, ensure eb is in PATH. You can ensure this by executing:

1. Bash:

   echo 'export PATH="/home/lisitsa/.ebcli-virtual-env/executables:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile && source ~/.bash_profile

2. Zsh:

   echo 'export PATH="/home/lisitsa/.ebcli-virtual-env/executables:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshenv && source ~/.zshenv

Add yourself as user to the the EC2 instance

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-fix-docker-got-permission-denied-while-trying-to-connect-to-the-docker-daemon-socket