spendLess

Personal finance tool built with the following goals:

• help users track their monthly income and expenses
• promote awareness of spending behavior and current financial health
• encourage users to spend less than they earn so they're able to put more money towards investments and savings, enabling them to retire comfortably and possibly even early.

(How it currently looks. Still lots of work to be done...)

Development

Install dependencies

yarn

Note:

• verified that it works with [email protected] and [email protected]
• verified that it is not working with [email protected] due to conflict with npm test using Babel 6.23.3 instead of 7.0.0

Run the app in dev mode

yarn start

Wait for the Electron app to load with the React UI

View accounts/transactions data

Navigate to http://127.0.0.1:5984/_utils while the start script is running to see a GUI of the PouchDB database

Verify functionality

Test the CSV upload functionality by uploading one of the sample CSV files found inside the assets/ directory. (Currently only supports Discover credit card CSVs. More financial institutions will be supported in the future.)

Automated testing

yarn test

Build desktop app

yarn build

Currently only supports building a MacOS app. Windows and Linux to be supported at a later time.