Node/Express/Postgres application for making stock purchases.
To start up the project, clone this repo to your machine and
npm install- Create a postgres database called stockapp. You can change the name if you prefer so long as you change the corresponding reference to the database in server/db/db.js
npm run start-dev- navigate to localhost:3000
- a user can create a new account with name, email, and password
- a user’s cash account balance is defaulted set to $5000.00 USD
- a user can only register once with any given email
- logged in user automatatically transferred to home dashboard
- user authenticates via email and password in order to access account
- user can buy shares of stock at its current price by specifying its sticker symbol and number of shares
- a user can only buy whole number quantities of shares
- a user can only buy shares if they have enough cash in their account for a given purchase
- a user can only buy shares if the ticker symbol is valid
- a user can view a list of their transactions
- a user can see a list of their stocks along with their current values
- user's portfolio values should be based on the latest price and quantity owned for a given stock
- a user should see the font color of stock symbols and current prices change dynamically
- display red when the current price is less than the day's open price
- display green when the current price is greatr than the day's open price
- display grey when the current price is the same as the day's open price
- testing
- protection for backend routes
- accessibility/visibility to screen readers
- do we anticipate users wanting to access this on mobile?
- mobile styling
- mobile security
- what do we do about latency (for example, on the subway?)
- will this work over slow connections/ what will a user see without javascript enabled?
- do we know where the majority userbase will be located? (e.g., a country where we need to provide Opera coverage?)