This is a link to BudgetHacks, an app that allows users to track transactions and create a budget while earning rewards for keeping up with their budgets.
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- Challenge: Filtering transactions dynamically for trailing three months to illustrate spending trends
- Solution: Map over all user's transactions to check if date matches specific criteria, aggregate total over amount spend over that period
- Challenge: Adding points to the user's point balance for the initial budget
- Solution: Added a counter to the budget schema and checked whether it was the first edit
- Challenge: Updating point balance on account activity and when prize is redeemed
- Solution: Add condition in backend route to check user's point balance with the cost of the prize
