This is a test task for a job posted by Pageloot.

It is not a production-ready setup, as it uses development server and sql-lite db, does not use Docker etc. It requires Linux (Ubuntu) to run with python 3.10+, and virtualenv.

To start the app:

• pip install virtualenv
• python -m virtualenv .venv --python=python3
• source .venv/bin/activate
• pip install -r requirements.txt
• cd use_expenses/
• python manage.py migrate
• python manage.py createsuperuser
• python manage.py runserver
• Create user via the admin page: http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/expenses/user/

Now you can use the API:

curl -H 'Content-Type:application/json' --data '{"user": "[email protected]", "title": "junk food", "amount": "142.43", "category": "food"}' -X POST 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/expenses/' -i
curl -X GET 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/expenses/' -i
curl -X GET 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/expenses/3/' -i
curl -X PUT -H 'Content-Type:application/json' --data '{"user": "[email protected]", "title": "updated title", "amount": "111.11", "category": "other"}' 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/expenses/3/' -i
curl -X PATCH -H 'Content-Type:application/json' --data '{"amount": "222.22"}' 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/expenses/3/' -i
curl -X GET 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/expenses/3/' -i
curl -X GET 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/users/[email protected]/expenses/?start_date=2025-11-02&end_date=2026-09-01' -i
curl -X GET 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/users/[email protected]/expenses_by_category/?date=2025-11-02

The API is described via DRF browsable web API available at http://127.0.0.1:8000/ (no auth required).

Initial estimate included possible use of db like PostgreSQL with docker compose, web/app server, start up scripts, tests/linters etc, but it's not used here to reduce time spent.