How to Build a Finance Tracker with Next.js and Strapi (3-part blog series)

[OmaJuliet]

What is your article idea?

This blog series will be a comprehensive guide on building a personal budget tracker with Next.js and Strapi. It will walk readers through the entire development process, from setting up the backend with Strapi to creating the frontend interface with Next.js, visualizing financial data, setting up user authentication, and advanced feature like real-time notification (i.e for budget limit exceeds). By the end of the article, readers will have a functional budget tracker which they can use to keep track of their budget, expenses, and income.

Below is an outline for each part of the series, ensuring that each article builds on the previous one and leads to a functional personal budget tracker by the end.

What are the objectives of your article?

Part 1: Setting up Strapi for expense and income management

1. Introduction to personal finance and budget tracking

• Importance of personal finance
• Benefits of budget tracking
• Overview of the blog series

2. Setting up Strapi for expense and income management

• Creating a new Strapi project
• Configuring Strapi for expense and income management
• Creating collection types for budget, expenses and income
• Defining the fields for the entries of each collection
• Creating and managing entries
• Testing the API endpoints

Part 2: Creating user interface with Next.js and implementing expense and income tracking

1. Creating the user interface with Next.js

• Creating a new Next.js application
• Integrating with Strapi
• Fetching data from Strapi API and displaying budget info, expenses and income on the UI
• Handling user input for adding new entries

2. Implementing expense and income tracking

• Creating components for budget, expense and income forms
• Enabling CRUD functionalities
• Validating user input and error handling

Part 3: Adding visualization with charts and graphs

1. Introduction to data visualization

• Importance of visualizing financial data
• Overview of the popular charting library - Chart.js

2. Adding visualization with charts and graphs

• Setting up Chart.js in the Next.js project
• Pie and bar chart to visualize budget categories
• Adding animation or transition to charts

Part 4: Setting up user authentication and advanced feature

1. Setting Up User Authentication

• Setting up authentication in Strapi
• Installing the authentication plugin
• Configuring user roles and permissions
• Implementing authentication in Next.js
• Creating login and registration forms

2. Advanced feature with real-time notification

• Enable budget limit setting functionality
• Implementing real-time notification using WebHook or Pusher (i.e notification for exceeding budget limit, etc)
• Series wrap up and final demo
• Summary

What is your expertise as a developer or writer?

Intermediate

What type of post is this?

Tutorial

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[Theodore-Kelechukwu-Onyejiaku]

Hi @OmaJuliet. This looks great!

Can we have it as a 3-part blog series? This is because we can actually combine part 1 and part 2 to become 1.

Have you thought considering changing the title to include the popular technologies you will be using? For example "Chart.js".

Please let me know what you think.

[OmaJuliet]

Hi @Theodore-Kelechukwu-Onyejiaku Yeah, sure. I can merge parts 1 and 2 to become 1, so it'll be a 3-part blog

As for the title, is "How to build a personal budget tracker with Next.js, Strapi, and Chart.js" ok?

[Theodore-Kelechukwu-Onyejiaku]

For SEO reasons, I would love that we shorten the length of characters to just 65. What do you think?

[OmaJuliet]

True @Theodore-Kelechukwu-Onyejiaku What about "Build a Personal Budget Tracker with Next.js, Strapi, and Chart.js" or "Build a Budget Tracker with Next.js, Strapi, and Chart.js". These are titles I can come up with that include the technologies being used and aren't so long

[Theodore-Kelechukwu-Onyejiaku]

This is good.

I must assume that you are informed that blog series are labeled as advanced and is a one time payment?

Please let me know if you are willing to accept.

[OmaJuliet]

Just getting to know about this.

Yes, I'm willing to accept.

[Theodore-Kelechukwu-Onyejiaku]

Thank you .

Please proceed!

[OmaJuliet]

Hi @Theodore-Kelechukwu-Onyejiaku

I'm done with this blog series.

Here are the draft links: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

Pls review. Thanks.

[Theodore-Kelechukwu-Onyejiaku]

Thank you @OmaJuliet 🙏