Order Book Web App

Order Book data renderer

APIs

• BitMEX: wss://www.bitmex.com/realtime

Environment

Node (LTS/Carbon)

$ node -v
v8.10.0

Main Modules

• Server:

  • nodejs
  • express
  • bitmex-realtime-api

• Client:

  • react
  • redux
  • webpack 3.12
  • socket.io-client
  • redux-thunk
  • sass

How to start

• Server:

  • node server.js OR nodemon server.js
  • Basic express server setup with the intent to fetch and feed the client with the stream of data originated from third-party libraries (eg.: BitMEX Websocket)

• Client:

  • npm run start

Implementation obstacle(s):

The greatest difficulty was to find possible solutions for a direct connection from the client to third-party websocket services (e.g: BitMEX Websocket). After several attempts, I have decided on implementing a basic ezpress server setup making usage of the bitmex-realtime-api module to fetch and feed the data to the client.

How it should look