💸 SpendWise: Expense Tracker

SpendWise is a full-stack Expense Tracker app to manage your income and expenses efficiently. Built with React (Vite) on the frontend, Node.js (Express) for the backend, and MongoDB for data storage.

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📦 Features

• 🔐 User authentication with JWT
• 💰 Add, update, and delete income/expenses
• 📊 Graphs and charts for insights (Bar/Pie)
• 📆 Filter transactions by date
• 🔎 View recent transactions
• 📁 Download income/expense data in Excel

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🧑‍💻 Tech Stack

Frontend ⚛️

• React + Vite
• Tailwind CSS
• Recharts
• Axios

Backend 🛠️

• Node.js + Express
• MongoDB + Mongoose
• JWT (Authentication)
• dotenv

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📁 Folder Structure

Expense-Tracker/

• ├── backend/ → Node.js Express API
• ├── frontend/expense-tracker/ → Vite + React frontend

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🛠️ Setup Instructions

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/IshaanPathak25/Expense-Tracker.git
cd Expense-Tracker

2. Backend setup

cd backend
npm install

• Create a .env file inside /backend:

MONGO_URI=your_mongo_connection_string
JWT_SECRET=your_jwt_secret
PORT=8000

• Run the backend server

npm run dev

3. Frontend setup

cd frontend/expense-tracker
npm install

• Create a .env file inside /frontend/expense-tracker:

VITE_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8000

• Run the frontend

npm run dev

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🙌 Acknowledgements

• Inspired by modern personal finance tools
• Built using best practices in the MERN stack

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🧑‍💼 Author

• Ishaan Pathak
• 📫 GitHub