Vanilla Transaction Dashboard

Donovan Hutcheon

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Vanilla Transaction Dashboard

• Learn stuff:
• Primarily Go
• But also React, Heroku
• Build a dashboard to record my spending habits
• Create a platform upon to build something cooler

Hello! 👋

How it works

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How it works

MariaDB

charkadog.herokuapp.com

shinycat.herokuapp.com

MariaDB

heenadog.herokuapp.com

scrawnycat.herokuapp.com

React

Go

Staging

Production

Get Involved!

Get involved

Challenges Encountered:

• Wasted a ton of time trying to serve React on the GoLang webserver inside the same container.
• Building multiple apps from a mono repo is not very easy with Heroku.
• Forces you to build from multiple repos and have multiple pipelines.
• $10 per CI pipeline.
• Heroku only provides Postgres and Redis databases for CI testing. (Dealbreaker)
• Forced me to get creative to find other ways of CI testing.
• Learned React the bruteforce way.

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Get in touch

The github README is not updated but I’ll upload installation instructions soon.

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Email: donohutcheon@gmail.com

Slack: @Donovan Hutcheon

Go Backend: https://github.com/donohutcheon/gowebserver

React Frontend: https://github.com/donohutcheon/reactwebclient

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Next Steps

Next steps

• Switch Heroku out with AWS or Google Cloud
• CI tests run against a real database
• Finish the filtering functionality in the frontend
• Display some sexy charts, graphs and summaries on the dashboard page
• Untangle the spaghetti, example: Implement DI framework
• Stupid stuff like revoking tokens, logging out, OAuth2, etc
• Look into GraphQL
• Make use of new Investec API features

Questions