Crypto Price Tracker

Overview

The main goal of this project is to keep up to date with cryptocurrencies prices and getting all news related to cryptocurrency. Additionally, the user can calculate their profit/losses on this web app.

Personal goal for this project:

• Learning how to use React
• Calling API using React

Features

1. See various current crypto prices
2. See all news related to cryptocurrency in a summary format
3. Go to a specific news in more detail
4. Add coin that you would like to see in your homepage
5. Calculate your gain/loss

Tech Stack

1. React.js

Libraries

1. antd - ant design provide front-end library for react.js user such as: icons, layouts, font, and many others
2. redux - provides APIs that enable your components to interact with the Redux store, so you don't have to write that logic yourself.
3. axios - react.js library to help the user getting the resources from the API
4. React is used to encapsulate a library of components which embody our design language

List of API

1. coingecko.com
2. newsapi.org

Future Work

1. Allow the user to login and sign out
2. Connect to a persistent database storage like Django
3. Integrate with coinbase account