splitwise

splitwise is a clone application of Splitwise, a tool that allows friends/roommates to split bills and helps keep track of the expenses with 100% transparency.

The clone application is developed as part of Laboratory#1, an academic undertaking at San Jose State University towards Masters in Software Engineering and is intended to boost understanding of web-development technologies/frameworks and is build for academic purposes only.

Using splitwise

1. Download the repo to your local machine and extract the contents.
2. Open folder 'splitwise-main' in Visual Studio Code/other editor.
3. Open terminal and run following commands:
   1. cd backend
   2. yarn install (This will install all the needed backend packages for backend)
   3. yarn dev
4. Open another terminal and run the following commands:
   1. cd frontend
   2. yarn install (This will install all the needed backend packages for frontend)
   3. yarn start
5. The application should start in a new tab of your default web-browser.

Contributing to splitwise

To contribute to splitwise, follow these steps:

1. Fork this repository.
2. Create a branch: git checkout -b <branch_name>.
3. Make your changes and commit them: git commit -m '<commit_message>'
4. Push to the original branch: git push origin <project_name>/<location>
5. Create the pull request.

Alternatively see the GitHub documentation on creating a pull request.

Contact

If you want to contact me, please send email to [email protected] or you can reach me at LinkedIn.