Expense Mint

A expense tracker for tracking and accessing user expenses by categories

CompanyId: ChibiBank (fictional financial service company/brand)
ProjectId: Expense Mint (product name)

Spring Boot RESTful API (resource,repository,service,domain/entity pattern) made to connect with backend using JDBCTemplate along methods for user login and registration and tracking and implementing a session token for maintaining a session and controlling access.

Getting Started

Creating the Database

PostgreSQL Set Up

• download and install a postgreSQL server on postgresql.org
• create a superuser (default user is postgresql and set the password) and go through postgresql installation.

Script execution

• set up the environment variable for postgresql (psql) based your machine
• run the command psql -U postgres --file em_db.sql the command line in the project directory to create database on your machine

Reference Documentation

For further reference, please consider the following sections:

• Official Apache Maven documentation
• Spring Boot Maven Plugin Reference Guide
• Create an OCI image
• Spring Boot DevTools
• Spring Web
• JDBC API
• Spring Boot Actuator

Guides

The following guides illustrate how to use some features concretely:

• Building a RESTful Web Service
• Serving Web Content with Spring MVC
• Building REST services with Spring
• Accessing Relational Data using JDBC with Spring
• Managing Transactions
• Building a RESTful Web Service with Spring Boot Actuator
• Accessing data with MySQL

Further Reading on REST architural principles and best practices

• REST Resources

• RESTful API Strategy