A React application using a Ruby on Rails backend to create a web application that mimics a fantasy sports within the financial markets. New York Times API was used to fetch news articles while IEX API 1.0 was used for all market data. Public leagues give a user a certain amount of starter money. Then each user can buy/sell holdings to increase total portfolio value. Highest portfolio value at the end of the time period wins.
- Change directory into the frontend folder
- run npm install && npm start in the terminal
- frontend server should be ready
- Change directory into the api folder
- to setup the database run "rails db:create && rails db:migrate"
- lastly to start the server run "rails s -p 4000" as the frontend point to the server at port 4000