Bonsai

A stock trading web app designed for beginners. Built for an interview coding task. The app is composed of a VueJS single page application frontend and a Flask backend REST API.

Online demo

http://vivli.rocks

Getting started

Instructions for setup and running on your local machine.

You need to have npm and Python 3 installed.

# clone the project
git clone https://github.com/viv-li/bonsai

Frontend

Navigate to frontend/bonsai-app/

# install dependencies
npm install

# serve with hot reload at localhost:8080
npm run serve

# build for production with minification
npm run build

Backend

In a new tab, navigate to backend, and make sure you have Python 3 running.

# check which version of Python
python --version

If you're not running Python 3, you can use a virtualenv.

# Follow instructions above to activate virtualenv is you need to

# install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# serve at localhost:5000
python manage.py runserver