Budget - Full Stack React, Node.js, PostgreSQL

This is a budgeting app which lets users create budgets and expenses within those budgets. Each budget will have a dashboard showing a detailed breakdown of money in, money out, and money left for the month.

Features

App:

• JWT Authentication built in
• Semantic-UI for a clean look and feel

Frontend:

• React
• Redux

Backend:

• Node.js
• Express
• PostgreSQL

To Run Locally

1. Create a database user in Postgres with CREATE DATABASE permissions (for development, you can just use superuser permissions)
2. Create a database, call it whatever you want
3. Create .env file in the root of the project (use .env.sample for reference) and fill in necessary items
4. Run backend by running npm i, and then npm run dev in the root of the project
5. In another terminal, cd into the client folder. Run npm i, and then npm start

Notes

• Frontend and backend run on different ports in development
• In production, express server is set up to serve both backend and frontend from same port