STOCK MARKET WEB APP

Web App for Stock Quotes & Live News Stream; Building a Portfolio Using Python & Django

Purpose

• This is my first big project to develop a full stack app on my own.
• It is a web application for stock market data. Users can get real-time stock data and market news via Alpha Vantage, IEX Cloud, and Stock News APIs.
• Creation of personal stock portfolios and a live streaming news feed are the first features.
• Adding charts visualization and implementing machine learning to analyze stocks will be the second goal, when I expand this app in the near future.

Demo

For a demo of the code and how the web app works, please see this screen recording: https://www.screencast.com/t/JoT9sT67h.

Requirements

• Get your own Django secret key
  • Create your own Django app
  • Copy secret key
  • Paste key into this project's secret key location at settings.py or in your own environment.
• API key is required if you want to use data from IEX cloud.
  • Create free account at https://iexcloud.io/.
  • Real-time data is free, however it is limited. You can use unlimited simulated data for free.
• API key is required to receive news (from news.html) via Stock News API.
  • Start a free trial at https://stocknewsapi.com.
  • Or uncomment the url in the "views.py" file for news "https://newsapi.org," and
  • Create free account at https://newsapi.org.
• Use pipenv to install python dependencies for the backend.

How to Run

• Run backend server with the following command:
• "python manage.py runserver"

Technical Summary

• Django
• Django Rest Framework
• Back end language: Python (the version used here is Python 3.7.7)
• Bootstrap
• HTML/CSS
• JavaScript
• SQL