Expense-Tracker

Run it locally (written for Windows and VSCode)

1. Create a directory and clone the repo in it:

git clone https://github.com/Pranav1642/Expense-Tracker.git

2. Create your virtual environment:

python -m venv env

3. Activate your virtual environment:

env\Scripts\activate

4. Install the dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

5. Create the DB in Postgres (Download it first) (schema in repo here)

6. Set your environment variables in .env file (otherwise hard code (not a good practice) the string engine in app.py in all of the .py files):

# DB variable
DATABASE_LINK=postgres://{user}:{password}@{hostname}:{port}/{database-name}

7. Build and run the Flask app in VSCode