This is a side project I've been working on. A full stack expense spliting app - splitwise clone made using the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React & Nodejs), specially designed to split group expense between friends. With this application, you can add your expense details and get an whole expense analytics feature - Group Balance, Monthly amount spend, Catagory wise expense spending graph etc.
- Create user groups and track group expense
- Keep track of shared expenses and settle your corresponding balances in a convenient and personalized way.
- Get Analytical graphs to understand your expenditure trend
- Multiple user registration.
- Authentication using JSON web token (JWT)
This project was created using the following technologies.
- React JS
- Redux (for managing and centralizing application state)
- Axios (for making api calls)
- Material UI (for User Interface)
- Gravitar (for user profile picture)
- Express
- Mongoose
- JWT (For authentication)
- bcryptjs (for data encryption)
MongoDB
In order to run this project locally, simply fork and clone the repository or download as zip and unzip on your machine.
- Open the project in your prefered code editor.
- Go to terminal -> New terminal (If you are using VS code)
- Split your terminal into two (run the client on one terminal and the server on the other terminal)
In the first terminal
$ cd client
$ npm install (to install client-side dependencies)
$ npm start (to start the client)
For setting up backend
- cd create a .env file in the root of your directory.
- Supply the following credentials
PORT=3001
MONGODB_URI=
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=
Create your mongoDB connection url, which you'll use as your MONGODB_URI
Provide some random key in ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET or you could generate one using node enter the below command in the terminal to genrate a random secret key
In the second terminal (*in the project root directory (back-end))
$ npm install (to install server-side dependencies)
& npm start (to start the server)