smaranjitghose/fantasticfinancetracker

A minimalistic application to track one's finances over a period built using Python

Fantastic Finance Tracker 💸

A minimalistic application to track one's finances over a period built using Python

Set-Up ⚒️

• Ensure you have the latest stable version of Python in your system

• Open your terminal / command prompt.

• Clone the repository

  git clone https://github.com/smaranjitghose/FantasticFinanceTracker.git
  

• Change the directory to the cloned project

  cd fantasticqrcode
  

• Install the dependencies

  pip install -r requirements.txt
  

• Create an environment file

touch .env

• Open the .env file in your desired IDE and define a variable DETA_KEY= ""

• Visit Deta and Sign up for a free Account

• Login to Deta

• Create a Project and Generate Project Key. Refer to the documentation if you face any hurdle to do so

• Copy the Project Key

• Create a secrets.toml file inside the .streamlit sub-directory

 touch .streamlit/secrets.toml

• Open the secrets.toml file, create a variable deta_key and assign in to value of the copied project key. Save the file

deta_key = "your_deta_project_key"

• Load the application

  streamlit run Home.py
  

• If the app does not load by itself in your default browser, open a browser of your choice and navigate to http://localhost:8501

• To stop the application, press CTRL + C in your terminal

Demo 👇

Click Here 🔗

Future Work 🏗️

• Dockerize the Application
• Experiment with other NoSQL Databases like MongoDB and hosting options like Supabase, Atlas,etc
• Improve Data Visualization (more charts)
• Experiment with user login

Note ✏️

• For Streamlit Sharing, mentioning versions of the modules in requirements throws error at times
• Error 401: If project key is changed/removed in the Deta Dashboard (Free Tier issues)

Deployment Options 🥊

Free Tier

• Streamlit Cloud ✔️
• Railway
• Render
• Fly
• Cyclic

No Free Tier

• Heroku
• Digital Ocean

Acknowledgements 🙏

• Animations: LottieFiles