💸 Budget Entry

A digital checkbook app designed for fast mobile data entry. Built with SvelteKit and Capacitor.

Immediately on app launch you're given a keypad for price entry + quick categorization.

Why

Don't give up your all your financial data just to see a inaccurate auto-generated categorization table. No login required.

This idea made me stumble into the "local first" community

• maggie appleton loficonf talk
• revisited annually: robin sloan
• https://biscuits.club/about built with https://github.com/a-type/verdant

Links:

• Boilerplate guide used to start repo: https://ionic.io/blog/cross-platform-sveltekit-capacitor-application-yes-its-possible
• Svelte Forms Lib (Like Formik) https://svelte-forms-lib-sapper-docs.vercel.app/basic
• Firebase offline syncing: https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/manage-data/enable-offline

Testing

• Required: npm i -g firebase-cli

  • Then: node run firebase to start emu.

• Playwright high level e2e tests

  • Tests reuse some application code to modify database for scenarios

• Tests spin up a local firebase emulator to use

  • Setting a key of "useFBEmulator" in your localstorage will enable emulator usage over a remote firestore instance.

• Clicking the money emoji 3 times will display debug information in your console log, or fire an alert dialog if on mobile

SSR?

• SPA, no ssr-rendering, all pre-rendered to work with Capacitor
• Details in +layout.ts

Next Up

• Replace firebase w tinybase (because firebase can't be offline only)
  • Use tinybase to store in sqlite
  • Add sqlite backup / restore
• TestFlight
  • Research OTA updates to the webapp instead of app updates
• Linting / formatting / bun
• CI/CD
• Track spending within a paycheck (date range + target, "X left")
  • Log these spending goals
• Pie graph of categories
  • Choosing sub topic shows most expensive sub categories / or purchases
• Category initialization
• Export data as CSV
• Spending timeline checklist