A website that displays a graph of bitcoin prices and allows users to set notifications for different thresholds.
Currently learning React with TypeScript.
- Monday, April 5: User can enter a form backed by AWS Lambda and display response.
- Tuesday, April 13: Store response in DynamoDB Table.
- Next: Send confirmation email to user via AWS SNS.
- Next: Allow for unsubscribing, which updates the DynamoDB Table.
- Next: Allow for text option, with unsubscribe.
- Next: Allow for signup/login, to see the subscriptions associated with the account.
- Thursday, April 15: Integrate fontawesome api into core
- Next: Follow tutorial to display bitcoin price ticker leveraging Coinbase API.
- Next: Figure out how to create an accompanying graph to the ticker.
- Thursday, April 29: Build out testing process with jest.
- Refactor
LoginForm.tsxto followForm.tsxsyntax. - Fix bug with fontawesome api.
The frontend of the website should show a live graph of the bitcoin price along with additional statistics. It would be a huge plus to get this graph interactive. To achieve this, I will call on the free API from coinbase or something like polygon. The website would have to continuously make these API calls to get up-to-date data. This data could then be stored in redis/memcached. For an interactive thing, perhaps embedding a gadget like Tableau would be the way to go, but that is a nice-to-have far down the road.
The website should start with basic functionality to enter an email address and a bitcoin price threshold. The first task is to set up a lambda function that gets triggered and sends a confirmation email to the user. The next task is to store the information in a sorted list to keep track of it. Then, when the bitcoin price crosses a certain threshold, a second lambda should be triggered that sends an email to the user. The AWS components neccesary here would be lambda, SNS, and Api Gateway.
A major goal of mine during this project is to use strong programming principles. To that end, I spent a ton of time setting up CI/CD pipelines using Buddy. One pipeline governs the AWS architecture cdk app while the other pipeline is for the react app.
Strong programming principles includes rigorous testing. I am trying to provide exhaustive tests for every React component I write. I use jest and am looking into additional tools like Enzyme to help out here.
React Pipeline
- Builds the project.
- Uploads the files to Amazon S3.
- Purges the AWS Cloudfront cache.
AWS Infrastructure Pipeline
- Builds the project, installing the aws cli and aws cdk.
- Executes cdk deploy on all cdk stacks.
Special thanks to the tutorial that got me started on this process.
- Practice developing infrastructure-as-code through the AWS CDK. Provisioned resources include S3, CloudFront, route53, Lambda, and Api Gateway!
- Learn React with TypeScript.
- Demonstrate strong software engineering techniques.