Budgeter - Overview
Published: 2020-04-24 | tags: project management, personal projects
To practice a bit with React and Node.js, not long ago I’ve started writing a small application with the tentative name of Budgeter. It’s been a serious attempt at starting something and consider it finished. I’ve learned a few things and I want to start writing about them in a series of posts.
Here’s a tentative, rough layout of what I want to talk about. Some of them are strictly technical, but at least one is more philosophical and deals with the definition of “done” and its approximation.
- Lessons learned: How to finish projects
- Setup a development environment with Express and React with option to deploy to Heroku
- Deal with authentication “by hand” and JSON Web Tokens
- Managing states with reducers in React
- Use a chain of middlewares in Express to achieve something
- Using Bootstrap and Reactstrap and why we need the latter
- Future development
Random factoid: I’d logged 27 hours and 30’ when I considered the first milestone completed and put the project in the open
The repository is available on GitHub.