Stock returns dashboard

This repo contains source code for a prototype stock returns dashboard, built using React (front-end) and Flask (Python back-end). The backend retrieves stock data using the IEX API. The front-end makes use of Material UI, React Redux for state management and Highcharts for plotting data.

Getting started (Windows)

• Install python 3.7
• Upgrade pip py -m pip install --upgrade pip
• Install Node.js

Building and running Python backend (development mode)

• CD to Python source cd src\python
• Create a virtualenv py -m virtualenv env
• Activate virtualenv .\env\Scripts\activate
• Install requirements pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• Start the backend env FLASK_DEBUG=1 python -m flask run --port 5000

Building and running the front-end (development mode)

• CD to React source cd src\react-app
• Install dependencies npm install
• Start front-end npm start