Expenses

Expenses is an in development expense management API written in Python, using Django, Django Rest Framework, Pytest and Celery.

• Track expenses individually or in a group.
• Recieve monthly expense report emails.

I am currently trying to find the best options for deployment, so it is currently only able to run locally.

To Get Started Using The API

With the server running, use cURL, Postman etc to:

• Hit the /api/signup endpoint supplying a username, password and email as JSON fields. E.g.

curl -X POST 'localhost/api/signup/' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
    "username": "your_username",
    "password": "your_password",
    "email": "[email protected]"
}'

• Hit the /api/token/ endpoint with the same data to get your user token, supply this as an Authorization: Token <yourtoken> header on subsequent requests.

To Get Started With Development

The easiest way to get started is to cd in to the backend directory and run make. This will build the containers and start the server and celery in detached mode.

If you would like to check the logs from the terminal, open three terminals and in them run:

• make build, make up
• make celery_worker
• make celery_beat

This should allow you to view the output from celery and celery beat.

Future Features

• Implement receipt uploading to s3.

• Update backend auth.

• Add styling to emails.

• Basic receipt text recognition.