Expense Tracking API

Overview

This Expense Tracking API allows users to manage their expenses by creating, retrieving, updating, and deleting expense records. Built with Express and MongoDB, it offers a RESTful interface for easy expense management.

Features

• Create new expense records
• Retrieve all expenses
• Retrieve a single expense by ID
• Update existing expenses by ID
• Delete expenses by ID

Setup

Prerequisites

• Node.js
• npm or yarn
• MongoDB

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

 git clone <repository-url>

2. Navigate to the project directory:

Navigate to the project directory:

3. Install dependencies:

npm install

API Endpoints

Create Expense

• POST /expenses
• Body:

  {
  "description": "Groceries",
  "amount": 100,
  "date": "2021-07-01",
  "category": "Food"
  }
  

Get All Expenses

• GET /expenses

Get Single Expense by ID

• GET /expenses/:id

Update Expense by ID

• PUT /expenses/:id
• Body:

{
  "description": "Utilities",
  "amount": 150,
  "date": "2021-07-15",
  "category": "Bills"
}

Delete Expense by ID

• DELETE /expenses/:id

Contributing

• Contributions to improve the Expense Tracking API are welcome. Please follow these steps to contribute:
  1. Fork the repository
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some AmazingFeature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
  5. Open a pull request