React for Beginners : Build a Real Expense Tracker

learn React.js from scratch by building a real-world expense tracker with filters, add/update/delete expenses, and charts to visualize data, showcasing React’s reactive UI approach.

Download the provided resources and install Tailwind CSS to style the expense tracker, configure the VIT plugin, and apply Tailwind classes via className.

Learn to manage interactive data in React by using the useState hook to track expenses, update totals, and refresh UI elements like charts as data changes.

Improve expense logic by validating form inputs to prevent empty submissions, resetting the form after adding, and updating the list with the new expense on top using a spread operator.

Filter expenses by category to display only matching items using a category state and a change handler in React. See real-time updates as you select different categories.

Learn to filter expenses by date in a React beginners course, using a filter state with start and end date inputs and a reset button.

Enhance the expense tracker by resetting edit state when the modal closes, adding a cancel button, and enabling outside-click to close while preventing inner clicks from closing.

Install Chart.js and react-chartjs-2, import and register chart components, and build basic pie and bar charts with hard-coded data for an expense tracker.

Build a dynamic bar chart by grouping expenses by date and summing amounts per date, using dates and amounts as the data, and set the chart label to expenses.

Enhance a bar chart in a React expense tracker by customizing dark theme styling: set axis ticks, grid lines, colors, and legend placement through chart options.

Learn to implement a simple React notification system that appears on create, update, or delete actions, using state and auto-dismiss.

Refactor the expense form into a data-driven React component that accepts form data and handlers via props, wiring handle change and handle submit and ensuring notifications display.

Refactor by extracting the filters section into its own component, and pass data and handlers as props to create a reusable module.

Refactor the charts component by creating a charts section, passing category data, date, chart data, and chart options, and importing pi and bar to render responsive charts.

Persist expenses in the browser by storing them in local storage. Convert expenses to strings, save them with setItem, and load with getItem, updating on each change via useEffect.