A Crypto Currency Tracker project based on Django 4.0 that is made to track prices on top 100 crypto currences in realtime which is achieved by using Django Channels. Data is gathered from the Coingecko API.
Scroll down to see the Instructions on how to launch this project properly.
Clone this repository, cd into it
git clone https://github.com/hatredholder/Crypto-Tracker.git
cd Crypto-Tracker
Start a new Virtualenv, activate it, install Python module requirements
virtualenv myenv
source myenv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
Run the Redis server
redis-server
Run a Celery worker
celery -A crypto_proj worker
Run the Celery beat
celery -A crypto_proj beat
Finally, run the Django server
python manage.py runserver
Frontend: Basic HTML
Backend: Django, Celery, Redis (for Celery message broking and Django Channels layers)
Database: SQLite
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Update template JavaScript logic;
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Implement Django Channels connection