The first thing to add is of course a way to add products and transactions as these form the core of the application. With the initial version I am aiming for a very basic form which just allows storing and retrieving data.
With the initial implementation of the Product and Transaction done, I will briefly explain how everything went, the thought process behind it and what I already know must be added in the future.
Before starting any actual development I decided to dive into the features GitHub provides. Since it is just a personal project, I see little reason to start hosting my own Jira or other heavy applications that I would need to keep running somewhere. Instead I would opt for free cloud-based solutions. As a fact I know that GitHub has a lot of features, which is nice because then everything is located in a single location.
I have however never used any of these features, and thus I was out for an interesting journey on setting everything up. In the end the goal was to have a nicely organised repository with a clear flow, where merging branches and continous integration is standard.
In the past I tried to contribute to an open-source C++ project, mainly because I want to keep my knowledge of C++ up-to-date. However finding an interesting project has been tough, but eventually I did find one. However, as with all projects there is a quite a big learning curve to get involved. Due to my lack of time, this never really took of.
Recently I decided to start working an a personal project, as with all of these projects they arise from a feel of need. The application I will create has as main goal to keep track of expenses. There are probably a lot of other applications that can do this, but by doing it myself I will have more control over the features.
