Student-Budget-Tracker

A mobile app that helps college students track their expenses and income, set budgets, and get insights into their spending habits.

Frontend: User interface and interaction

Backend: Handling financial data and providing analytics

Features: Budget planner, savings calculator, expense tracker

Members:

• Emily Jiji (Front-end)
• Grayson Kornberg (Back-end)
• Brian Magnuson (Front-end)
• Spencer Walgren (Back-end)

Setting up the database

Our app uses a MySQL database for the backend. You must use a cloud hosting service (AWS, Azure, etc.) to create the database.

Once your database is set up, navigate to

Student-Budget-Tracker/backend/database/setup.go

On line 13, replace models.Username, models.Password, and models.Url with the username, password, and url respectively for your database:

var dsn = fmt.Sprintf("%s:%s@tcp(%s)/%s?charset=utf8mb4",models.Username,models.Password,models.Url, dbname)

Finally, navigate to

Student-Budget-Tracker/backend/controllers/user.go

On lines 115 and 174, replace models.SecretKey with any string of your choice.

Running the app

To run the app, make sure Go and Node.js are both installed.

Install all necessary npm packages

npm install

Install necessary Go modules

cd backend
go mod tidy

Start the app (cd back to the root if you haven't already)

npm start

Frontend Documentation

View our frontend documentation on our wiki: Student Budget Tracker Wiki