Nstocks is a web application for the Stock market. It receives the data for the stocks from the Alpha Vantage and visualizes them with charts. Anyone who uses the web application has the capability to monitor current high, low, close, previous close and open. You can also register to the application and therefore, as a user you can follow your favorite stocks in order for them to be organized in your Profile. Another advantage of being a user at Nstocks is that you can set upper and lower bounds for a specific stock and if its value decreases or increases, the server will send you an notification email. The back-end is built with Nodejs, express and other packages from npm , while the frond-end is built with Bootstrap, EJS, CSS and Javascript. The server makes API calls and then sends the data to the client, which visualizes them with charts for the timeline of: 1 Day, 2 Days, 1 Month, 5 Months, 1 Year, 5 Years and Max years. Both of the server and the client communicate with AJAX. The web application is online with the usage of Heroku and Github.
In Stocks page you can search and track the stocks you are looking for
If you register and login you can have access to Profile page, where user's favorite stocks appear and can also set upper and lower bounds for the stocks prices.
- Node
- Git
- Clone the repo and install the dependencies.
git clone https://github.com/nikous/Thesis.git
cd Thesisnpm install- Next create an .env file to your main folder (Thesis) and add:
API_KEY = <Add your api-key from Alphavantage>
PASS = < MongoDB password >
EMAIL = < Password for the email you use to send the notification emails>- Then change the link to mongoDB database: go to config folder, change in the keys.js file the link, next to dbPassword.
require('dotenv').config();
//Pasword to connect to mongodb is in the .env file
pass = process.env.PASS;
// Change the link
dbPassword = 'mongodb+srv://jimmy:' + pass + '@database-keiop.mongodb.net/test?retryWrites=true&w=majority';
module.exports = {
mongoURI: dbPassword
};- Lastly, go to routes folder and change email in StockValue.js file.
var transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
service: 'gmail',
auth: {
// Add your email next to user
user: '[email protected]',
pass: Emailpass
}
});- To start the express server, run the following:
npm run dev- Open http://localhost:1200 and take a look around.
You can compress your files with brotli and zlib using the following command:
node compressYou can also deploy this app to Heroku:
If you want to contact with me you can reach me at the following email address: [email protected]