Synopsis

A full stack web-app that allows users to look up cryptocurrencies and perform basic virtual trade manipulations (buy and sell coins).

Live Demo

Link to App: Velvet Crypto

Please wait for up to 15 seconds as the free Heroku server fires up for the app.

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/EugeCos/crypto-velvet.git
$ cd PROJECT
$ npm client-install

Start server and client & watch

$ npm run dev

Simple build for production

$ npm run build

API Reference

https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/data/pricemultifull?fsyms=BTC,ETH,LTCtsyms=USD
for coin rates

https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/data/all/coinlist
for coin full names and avatars

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Tools

• ReactJS - main library
• LESS - CSS preprocessing
• Webpack - watch and compile LESS files
• Axios - API calls
• Material UI - front-end framework
• Font Awesome - fonts
• MongoDB and Mongoose - data storage and serving
• Express - API serving
• Concurrently - run client and server simultaneously
• Passport - auth validation
• Bcrypt - password encryption
• JWT - data transfer
• Validator - data validation

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Timeline

August 9 to August 12, 2018 - initialized the project
October 8 to October 21, 2018 - project development

Contributors

• Eugene Costov // [email protected]

Licence

Velvet-Crypto is available under MIT.