Advanced~16 hours

Personal Finance Tracker

full-stackdatabasechartsauthenticationreact

Project Brief

Build a full-stack personal finance tracker where users can log income and expenses, categorize transactions, set budgets, and visualize spending patterns. Includes user authentication, a dashboard with charts, and CSV import/export. Uses Next.js with a database backend.

Requirements

→User authentication (sign up, log in, log out)
→Add, edit, delete transactions (income and expenses)
→Categorize transactions (food, transport, rent, entertainment, etc.)
→Monthly budget setting per category with progress bars
→Dashboard with spending charts: pie chart by category, line chart over time
→Filter transactions by date range, category, type (income/expense)
→CSV import and export
→Recurring transactions (monthly bills)
→Net worth / balance calculation
→Responsive design with mobile-friendly data entry

Milestones

Set up Next.js with Prisma + SQLite (or PostgreSQL). Implement user authentication. Design the database schema: users, transactions, categories, budgets.

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