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Expense Tracker API Project Completion

Completion of Project 4 from 20 Backend Projects Roadmap from roadmap.sh (link below)

Project: Expense Tracker API

Series: 20 Backend Projects Roadmap

Study time: Less than an hour

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Github repo: ExpenseTrackerApi
I’ll be creating a post that is more in-depth for this project.

Today I decided to call the project complete, since it has been taking a while now, and I need to move to other projects.

expense tracker api project diagram Project diagram of project 4 in the roadmap. From roadmap.sh

I didn’t do all the requirements specified in the project.However, I needed to prevent this project from taking most of my time. Because of recent schedules, I have not been consistently doing this project, which is the reason I haven’t been consistent with this project, and I need to move on to the next.

Implementing JWT

I focused all my energy in implementing JWT, since I have not implemented JWT before.

  • implemented access and refresh tokens
  • expiration and refresh token rotation
  • tokens are stored http only, and are sent as cookies
  • raw refresh tokens are not stored on the db, only the hashed version

Expense Tracker API

I had not focused here, and only implemented basic CRUD endpoints. The focus was really on implementing JWT on protected endpoints.

  • Create, Read, Update, and Delete endpoints for expenses
  • All endpoints need an access token to access resources

Things not implemented

Expired refresh token cleanup on the database
Haven’t really looked into implementing this, but maybe for next projects.

Pagination
Although I’ve created a lot of basic CRUD APIs, I have only implemented pagination one time. Maybe I will implement it as a default for my next projects.

Query filtering
On the GET endpoint again. I’ll take the time to learn pagination and query filtering and implement them all on my projects as a default.

Next Project

I’m still choosing between continuing with Project 5, or take a “project checkpoint break” where I make my own project before continuing again with the roadmap

The choices are:

Project 5 on the Roadmap: Markdown Note-taking App

project 5 on the 20 backends project roadmap Project 5 from roadmap.sh

Text Editing with Live Collaboration

I don’t know where this idea came from. But I really wanted to do something with live collaboration.

Since the two have something to do with text editing, maybe I’ll combine both.

That’s it for today’s logs. I’ll see what next project I will do.