Finance-Dashboard

This Spring Boot project retrieves data about the economy every morning, and stores it in a MySQL database. This data is then dynamically displayed in the dashboard main page using Thymeleaf templates. Users can also search through the archive of news articles and historical price data.

How to use

1. Clone the repository by running git clone https://github.com/Nielam-Dass/Finance-Dashboard.git
2. Install dependencies in Maven's pom.xml.
3. Install MySQL on port 3306 and create a database called finance_dashboard.
4. Create tables news_article and market_performance_snapshot.
5. Create an application-dev.properties file and define spring.datasource.username and spring.datasource.password.
6. Go to Rapid API and get a private key. In application-dev.properties, set the value of rapid_api_key to your private key.
7. Run FinanceDashboardApplication.java and go to http://localhost:8080/dashboard.