CashCoach

A finance web app for adding, categorizing, and watching income and expenses, with budgets per category and charts on top. Django REST Framework runs the backend, React the frontend.

Cash Coach is built around the everyday jobs of tracking money. Users can add, categorize, and monitor financial transactions, set budgets, and see the results. The README describes the experience as interactive charts, dynamic data fetching, and user-friendly financial management. In practice that means a form to log transactions, a way to group them by category, and budgets that update dynamically as transactions are recorded, so the numbers stay current without manual recomputation.

The backend is Django for logic, models, and APIs, with Django REST Framework for building the APIs the frontend talks to, and PostgreSQL for storage. The exposed APIs cover transactions and budget management, handling adding, updating, and retrieving transactions plus real-time budget progress. It is a conventional setup, and the README presents it that way.

React handles the user interface with dynamic data handling, Axios makes the HTTP calls to the backend API, and Chart.js renders financial trends as interactive graphics. The frontend pieces map onto the backend: a transaction form with dynamic category selection, a budget manager with real-time progress bars, and charts for income trends and expense breakdowns. Each component is tied to the API that feeds it data, which is how the README connects the two halves.

For a small personal finance app the split is easy to follow. Django keeps transactions and budget math straight, React draws the interface, and Chart.js turns the numbers into trends you can actually read.

• Source 1 · Project repository
• Source 2 · README