Projet perso · 2022
Managing a coffee budget in a coworking space
A small Vue / Nuxt PWA to track your coffee budget in a community coworking space, no account, no server, with local persistence.
Context
In a community coworking space, some services are handled outside the monthly billing. Coffee is one of them: the coworking buys it from a supplier, the price is set collectively, and everyone pays their share, either online or with coins in a shared piggy bank.
In practice it’s simple: a coin per coffee, a note for the next five, or through the web. Except a few days later: how many did I have again?
The solution
To avoid doing the maths from memory, I built a simple PWA that shows how many coffees you have left based on your budget. Tap minus for each coffee poured, plus when you add money to the piggy bank. When the balance goes negative, an in-app alert quietly reminds you to top up.
Technical details
The project is built with Vue as the core library and Nuxt to quickly scaffold an optimised app. No account needed: it relies on the browser LocalStorage API to keep the balance from one session to the next.
The code is open source on GitHub, and the app is deployed on Netlify.