Stocks with Socks

A minimalistic, intuitive web-socket application that allows you to recieve stock updates

Why Web sockets?

When trading and investing in the stock market, you need instant updates to maximize profit, and Web sockets are fater than HTTP requests/responses

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/RogueNPC/stocks-with-socks.git

Go to the project directory

  cd stocks-with-socks

Install dependencies

  npm install

Start the server

  node app.js

To run this project, you will need to add the following environment variables to your .env file

FINNHUB_API_KEY

MAILGUN_API_KEY

Once you verify your email, you'll recieve your stock updates:

Client: HTML, CSS

Server: Node, Express,

Other tools: Socket.IO, nodemailer, Finnhub