Order Processor

This is a TypeScript API server implementation of an order processor.

Development

This code was developed on mac OSX. The src directory contains the TypeScript source files.

Prerequisites

Install the latest LTS version of Node. Feel free to remove the strict engine checks within package.json

  "engines": {
    "npm": ">=9.5.1",
    "node": ">=18.16.0"
  },
  "engineStrict": true,

This project uses yarn as package manager.

npm install -g yarn

Installation

yarn install

Running the API server

yarn start

You can use curl or client of your choice to make a POST request to the API server. For example:

curl -X POST http://localhost:3000/place_order \
   -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
   -d '{"requestID": "123ABC", "symbol": "AAPL", "quantity": 100, "price": 135.50, "side": "buy"}'

Testing

Run jest tests using

yarn test

Interactively

yarn test --watchAll