This dashboard is a PoC for a dashboard visualizing capital market data.
The frontend is written in React with Next.js and receives the data from a backend written in Flask with Python. The backend accesses the CoinGecko API for cryptocurrency data.
The capital market data for the indices is retrieved server-side by a web scraper from Yahoo Finance and provided to the frontend.
Technologies used:#
- Next.js (React, JavaScript)
- Flask, Beautiful Soup 4, lxml (Python)
The first version of the dashboard was written in TypeScript without a framework and included a stock runner and an overview of current news from the business section of the NY Times, both of which have been removed in the revised version for reasons of clarity:
