Bitcoin Tracker Application

The application is a bitcoin tracker which can show current and historical prices. The data is provided via the free coindesk API.

It makes use of the following technologies:

• Spring-Boot (Back-end)
  • json-simple (message parsing)
• React-JS (Front-end)
  • axois (ajax)
  • boostrap/reactstrap (styling)
  • chart.js/react-chartjs-2 (charts)
  • redux/redux-thunk (state management)
  • jest/enzyme (test)

The application provides the user with the following charts:

• Current Bitcoin Price which gets updated every minute
• Historical Bitcoin Price which retrieves the last 30 days of prices.

Building and running application (server and front-end)

This will package up the entire application into an executable jar.

mvn clean install
java -jar target/bitcoin-tracker*.jar

Then navigate to: http://localhost:8080

Running server standalone

mvn spring-boot:run

REST services available

• http://localhost:8080/prices/latest
• http://localhost:8080/prices/hisorical

Running front-end standalone

cd src/main/js/frontend
npm install
npm start

Then navigate to: http://localhost:3000

Run from Docker

Pull image from docker hub:

docker pull wesleyarchbell/bitcoin-tracker:0.1

Run docker image:

docker run -p 8080:8080 wesleyarchbell/bitcoin-tracker:0.1

Then navigate to: http://localhost:8080