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Stock Trading Web App

A stock trading web app built on Flask with an aim to learn about backends.

  • Buy, sell, check price of stocks in realtime
  • View portfolio of your stocks
  • View history of purchase and sale of stocks

Quick Development Setup

Fork. Clone. Make sure you cd to stock-trading-app directory. Set upstream and origin.

Install or update to the latest version of Python if you haven't already.

Time to get started. Feel free to create an issue if you get stuck or if you need help :)

# Note: execute the below commands in `Bash` with administrative privileges

# Installs pipenv globally
pip install pipenv

# The below command installs dependencies in the pipenv's virtualenv
pipenv install --dev

# Activates virtualenv subshell
pipenv shell

# Copies `sample.env` to `.env`
# You can paste your API credentials in `.env`
cp sample.env .env

# Runs the app, served at http://127.0.0.1:5000 by default
flask run