🫰🏻Expense Tracker – Backend (Spring Boot)

This repository contains the backend service for the Expense Tracker application. It exposes REST APIs for managing expenses.

📝 Note

This backend exposes public CRUD APIs (authentication not implemented yet). It is intended to be consumed by a frontend application. This backend must be running locally to use the Expense Tracker frontend.

🔗 Frontend Repository

Live UI (Backend required)

👉🏻 https://expense-tracker-frontend-pi-eight.vercel.app/

🛠 Tech Stack

• Java 21

• Spring Boot

• Spring Web (REST APIs)

• Spring Data JPA

• PostgreSQL / MySQL

• Maven

⚙️ How to Run Locally

1️⃣ Clone the repository git clone

https://github.com/nayakbarsha/ExpenseTracker-Backend.git
cd ExpenseTracker-Backend

2️⃣ Create database

CREATE DATABASE expense_tracker;

3️⃣ Configure application.properties

spring.datasource.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/expense_tracker
spring.datasource.username=YOUR_DB_USERNAME
spring.datasource.password=YOUR_DB_PASSWORD

spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update
server.port=8080

4️⃣ Run the application

mvn spring-boot:run

🏁 🟢 🚀 Backend will start at:

http://localhost:8080

✅ Current Features

• Add, view, update, delete expenses

• APIs are publicly accessible (temporary)

• No authentication yet

🚧 Planned Enhancements

• Login & signup

• Secured expense access

• JWT-based authentication

• Backend deployment

👩‍💻 Author

Barsha Nayak