The JES Budget web app has been developed to support personal financial literacy. The primary functionality provides users with a simple interface to track expenses throughout the month, with the goal of ensuring that more money is earned than spent.
To ensure that this application is accessible on most platforms, it was built as a web app with the Next.js framework. This allows for complex server-side and client-side functionality, while not requiring the installation of any software on the user’s end.
The main data for this application is stored in MySQL server running on an Ubuntu Virtual Machine. This machine is running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, which allows for it to have extremely high uptime and availability, all without expensive and difficult to maintain hardware. Another benefit of this VM is that it is natively available from the public internet, which allows it to be securely accessed from anywhere.
In addition to running MySQL server, the Ubuntu cloud VM is also running the Next.js web server. This web framework integrates Node.js, React, and TypeScript to be able to support the functionality that we need in our web app.
The web app integrates with the database using API calls, all defined within the Next.js server-side portion. These API calls allow for both reading data from the database as well as writing to it. In order to ensure that the proper user is requesting data from the database, a user ID is collected from the login cookie and is then passed to the API.
We'd like to have you check it out! http://jesbudget.com