Expense Tracker

A simple Expense Tracker built with React, Java, and Spring Boot that demonstrates building a full-stack application with a REST API and relational database.

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🚀 Overview

The application allows users to record and view expenses through a web interface. The React frontend communicates with a Spring Boot REST API that stores expense data in a MySQL database.

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🛠️ Tech Stack

Frontend

• React

Backend

• Java
• Spring Boot
• Spring Data JPA
• REST APIs

Database

• MySQL

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✨ Features

• Add new expenses
• View all recorded expenses
• Retrieve expense records through REST API endpoints

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📷 Screenshot

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⚙️ Running the Project

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/kayanr/ExpenseTracker.git

Create database

CREATE DATABASE expense_tracker_db;

Start the backend

mvn spring-boot:run

Backend runs at:

http://localhost:8080

Start the frontend

cd frontend
npm install
npm start

Frontend runs at:

http://localhost:3000