Financial Gains House

Contributors: Ethan, Andrew & Jamie

A full-stack application allowing a user to view the current value of different stocks, and manage their own personal profile.

This application was built as a week long project whilst studying at CodeClan.

Contents

• Video
• Technologies
• Brief
• Challenges
• Installation

Video

Financial.Gains.House.-.Demo.mp4

Technologies

These are the main technologies we used to contruct the project.

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Brief

A local trader has come to you with a portfolio of shares. She wants to be able to analyse it more effectively. She has a small sample data set to give you and would like you to build a Minimum Viable Product that uses the data to display her portfolio so that she can make better decisions.

MVP

A user should be able to:

• view total current value.
• view individual and total performance trends.
• retrieve a list of share prices from an external API and allow the user to add shares to her portfolio.
• View a chart of the current values in her portfolio.

Extensions

• Show a history of how stock buying options have changed in the last x timepoints.
• The ability to make it a multi-user app
• Increase number of symbols being used within the application past 5

Challenges

Here are some of the things we've found difficult:

• Handling lots of data from an external API with a request limit
• Asynchronicity! Rendering components with all the relevant information loaded

Installation

To run the app open your CLI and run the follwoing in both the 'server' and 'client' directory

npm i 

then in 'server'

npm run seeds
npm run server:dev

then in 'client'

npm start

which should then launch the app. We recommend using Chrome as your browser.