Stocks-Simulator

Description

An app that simulates buying, selling, quoting and tracking stock prices Technologies used:

• MongoDB for database
• NodeJS (Express) as backened techonology
• JSON Web Tokens for authentication
• EJS, CSS and SCSS for styling
• FinnHub Stocks API for Stocks data

Requirements

• Node.js
• MongoDB Local Or MongoDB Atlas

Running the Project

• Clone the repository with command: git clone https://github.com/ogi1998/Stocks-Simulator.git
• Install necessary packages with command: npm install
• you should have .env file at the root of the project with following configuration (also see .env.example file):
  • DB - this should be connection string for the MongoDB database
  • JWT_SECRET - is a secret string for JWT authentication
    • to generate random string you can do the following:
      • Open console
      • type node to open node console
      • type following command : require('crypto').randomBytes(64).toString('hex')
      • copy the key and paste it in .env file
  • API_KEY - this is API key for the FinnHub Stocks API, to generate it:
    • Go to FinnHub
    • Create a free account
    • Generate an API Key
    • Paste it in .env file
• run npm start to start the application