Income Expense Tracker- MoneyTrail

Abstract

MoneyTrail aims to undertake the challenge of providing a web-based income and expense tracking application which is user friendly seamless, secure and localized. The application is built on windows operating system but allowing compatibility with various operating systems, macOS, and Linux. The development of the project is done mainly using two programming languages. It is built using PHP with the Laravel framework for backend development, MySQL for database management which is hosted locally using Apache server and React for frontend development. Additionally, it is intended to integrate with an API for real-time currency conversion. The server-client communication follows HTTP protocol. Hence, overall architecture closely follows client-server architecture and backend follows (MVC) architectural pattern.