README.md

myExpense

Simple MERN stack app to keep track of your day to day expenses

Features to include:

• User Registration page
• User Login page
• Expesnse page
• View Transaction page
• While ading transaction, ask date also instead of picking current date
• Show total expense
• Filter transactions based on month/year/category
• Client side pagination

Room for Improvement:

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Current Issue:

None

Dev setup

.env setup

Create .env file in root folder with following variables

mongoUser=[mlab or atlas or local db user name]

mongoPW=[mlab or atlas or local db password]

GAMIL_ID=[your gmail id or username from your email service provider]

GAMIL_PW=[your gmail pw or api pw or key from your email service provider]

Find inline comment in store.js to setup Redux dev tool for dev env

Setup for sending email

For Dev env use : service: '<Gmail or your service provider>', auth: { user: process.env.GMAIL_ID, pass: process.env.GMAIL_PW } While moving to prod use: host: "smtp.gmail.com", port: 465, secure: true, auth: { user: process.env.GMAIL_ID, pass: process.env.GMAIL_PW }

To install dependencies for node and react

npm i && npm i --prefix=client

To run node and react localServer

npm run dev