🌱 MulaGreen - Personal Finance Dashboard

Welcome to the MulaGreen Personal Finance Dashboard, a web application for tracking expenses, setting budgets, and visualizing your financial health over time! This project tackles common challenges in web development, including user authentication, data management, API design, and responsive front-end development. 🚀

🎯 Project Overview

The MulaGreen dashboard is designed to help users effectively manage their finances by providing tools to track expenses, set budgets, and gain insights into their spending habits through dynamic visualizations.

🌟 Key Features

• 🔒 User Authentication: Secure login/logout functionality with OAuth for session management.
• 💵 Expense Tracking: Users can record and categorize their daily expenses.
• 📊 Budget Setting: Set and track monthly budgets for various categories.
• 📈 Data Visualization: Utilize libraries like Chart.js or D3.js to visualize financial data.
• 📱 Responsive Design: A seamless experience across both desktop and mobile devices.
• 🔗 API Integration: Develop a RESTful API to facilitate front-end and back-end communication.
• 💾 Database Design: Use PostgreSQL for relational data storage and MongoDB for non-relational needs.
• 🌐 Deployment: Deploy the application on Vercel for the frontend and utilize AWS services for the backend.

🎓 Learning Objectives

• Full-Stack Development: Gain a comprehensive understanding of both client and server-side development.
• Common Web Challenges: Dive into authentication, state management, API security, and more.
• Performance Optimization: Focus on enhancing application performance from front-end to back-end.
• 🔐 Security: Ensure data is secure through best practices in data handling and storage.

🏗️ Getting Started

To get started with MulaGreen, clone this repository and follow the setup instructions below:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/mulagreen.git
cd mulagreen
npm install
npm start

🛠️ Built With

Frontend: React.js, Next.js, Chart.js Backend: Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, MongoDB Auth: Auth0 Deployment: Vercel, AWS

📋 Backlog and User Stories Check out our detailed User Stories and Project Backlog to get an idea of planned features and upcoming enhancements.

🤖 CI/CD

We use GitHub Actions and AWS CI/CD tools to ensure our code is robust and deploys smoothly to production.

📞 Contact

If you have any queries or feedback, please open an issue here on GitHub.

Thank you for checking out MulaGreen! Let's make personal finance management a breeze! 💨🍃