Use the login username and password provided in the submission comment in Canvas, signup using the form on the live site, or ask for them by sending a mail to [email protected].
Set the following environment variables on your system, in order to succesfully connect to the Firebase backend. The config variables can be found in your Firebase dashboard under 'Project settings':
- REACT_APP_AUTH_DOMAIN
- REACT_APP_DATABASE_URL
- REACT_APP_PROJECT_ID
- REACT_APP_STORAGE_BUCKET
- REACT_APP_MEASUREMENT_ID
- REACT_APP_APP_ID
- REACT_APP_MESSAGING_SENDER_ID
- REACT_APP_API_KEY
- REACT_APP_SECRET_API_KEY
The name have to match exactly the above
For the Alpha Vantage Api Key, you'll have to contact us.
In the project directory, you can run:
This will install all the dependencies
Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.
The page will reload if you make edits.
You will also see any lint errors in the console.
Builds the app for production to the build folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.
The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
Your app is ready to be deployed!
This is a web app where you can set up your own virtual stock portfolio, see overall development on the portfolio as well as overtime development on specific stocks. The stocks can be bought with fake money and will then be added to a personal portfolio. Thus, providing the user with the educational value of learning to trade and manage their assets, but without any associated risks. In addition, the user will possibly be given some sort of score according to ROI.
The app will be built in React, with a backend in Firebase for data storage as well as authentication. Also, Material UI will be used for simplifying styling.
Alpha Vantage will be used to access all data concerning the stock information, such as stock buy/sell price and historical data. Alpha Vantage has a reliable and widely used test API, which is simple to register for and utilize.
Reference: https://www.alphavantage.co/documentation/
Our app will get all the data from the API connected to the individual portfolio, such as stocks in portfolio, purchase price, stock id, date of purchase and quantity. The users and their related information will be stored in the backend, and thus not retrieved via the Alpha Vantage API.
All of the different pages are created and they have the functionality they're intended to have. The search page do fetch data from from Alpha Vantage API, but since it is a free API service we cannot do more than a few API requests each minute which affects the user experience of the service since you have to wait in between each call.
The portfolio data is displayed in several ways in order for the user to get a good overview of his/her investments. Future "nice-to-have" features would be to implement more tips and feedback over time, for example different levels for each user, and gamify the platform to a greater extent than just return on investment. We believe this is a solid code base that can easily be contributed to and built upon; so we encourage anyone who wants and is interested to continue building onto this repo.
The file structure is based on the purpose of the file. For example the components and API calls are two different thing, hence exists in two different folders. The components are class based.