Clutch Scala Stock Watcher

A Scala/Play2 backend that exposes a web-service & websocket API for stock searching, and adding & removing stocks to/from a real-time stock price watcher

Prerequisites & Assumptions

• You are working on MacOS
• You have homebrew installed
• You have the Java 8 jdk and runtime installed (brew cask install adoptopenjdk8)
  • My output from java -version: openjdk version "1.8.0_222"
• You have scala installed (brew install sbt)
  • sbt sbtVersion ==> 1.3.8

Steps to boot it up

1. Clone this repo locally
   • git clone https://github.com/ajball/clutch-coding-exercise.git
2. Navigate to the project root dir
   • cd clutch-scala-exercise
3. Start the app
   • sbt run
   • Alternatively, you can open the project in Intellij and create a Scala Play2 run configuration to boot up the server. Found this to be more reliable at times, especially when I ran into problems related to stale or missing dependencies
4. Open Postman or Google Chrome and request http://localhost:9000. Might take several seconds for the class files to compile and whatnot, but if the app started successfully, you should you should see the following json response:

{
  "search_stocks_url": "GET /stocks?search=${searchTerm}",
  "init_stock_watcher_url": "GET /watch",
  "add_stock_to_watcher_url": "POST /stocks Body: { symbol: ${symbol} }",
  "remove_stock_from_watcher_url": "DELETE /stocks/${symbol}"
}

Front-End dependencies

There's a javascript client that was built to consume the stock watcher backend. You can find it here with instructions on how to get it up and running also