Stonks! - A Historical Stock Price App

Visit

https://past-stonks.herokuapp.com

Features to Try!

Use this app to calculate present value of investments made (or should have made) in the past

• Enter a valid stock ticker, amount, and past date
• Date must be in the past as it is used to determine how many shares would have been bought
• Click submit and enjoy (or cry) your missed opportunity!
• You never know! You may have made the right choice by not investing!!

Technologies

• Front-End
  • React.js, HTML5, CSS3
• Back-End
  • Node.js, Express.js, PostgreSQL, Sequelize
• External API/Libraries
  • Tiingo: Providing 30+ years of historical stock price data
• Deployment
  • Heroku: Live website with public URL
  • Mocha/Chai: Unit testing of 90% of modules for faster developement
  • Travis: Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

Future Roadmap

• Fun insult and nice message generator based on the result
• More responsive for mobile phones (possible PWA)
• Front End data validation for the three inputs:
  • Ticker: autofill or dropdown to select only valid options
  • Amount: Data formatting with commas
  • Date: Only allow weekday seelctions (no weekends since Tiingo has no data)
• Integrate bitcoin and other crytptocurrency prices
• Data Visualization of stock price since the date entered
• Social Media integration to share results
• Greater Accessibility for visually impaired customers (A11Y)
• Ability to add SMS/Email reminders to invest (very low priority)
• Any ideas you may have! Please reach out!

Developer

Kush Patel

Installation

• To install all dependencies: npm run install
• To create database and seed: createdb past-stonks && createdb past-stonks-test
• To Run App!: npm run start-dev

Store your Tiingo API key infromation in a new file secrets.js* or global environmenal variables