The motivation of this idea is to build a stock trading website with majority features for traders to analyze and make decisions, a friend system is included as well, so that traders can share their decision with their friends efficiently.

The web application is made using react, so the prerequisite are to have both nodejs, and npm installed. Nodejs and npm can be installed together at https://nodejs.org/en/download/. To build the project:

# run install in each directory: backend/ and frontend/
# run command:
npm install

# to run back end: cd into the backend directory of the project
# run command:
npm start

# to run front end: cd into the frontend directory of the project
# run command:
npm start
# if the system ask you to change port, type yes

# open http://localhost:3000/ in the browser to see the website

• We use the git-flow workflow for merging and managing code in the repository. The name of the branches as per git flow are

1. Sprint_1_Develop_Branch
2. Sprint_2_Develop_Branch
3. Sprint_3_Develop_Branch
4. Sprint_4_Develop_Branch

• The features branches follow the following naming convention of PROG-X (X is the ticket number).
• We will use SPRINT_X_Merge to merge all user stories together
• We will use Jira for tracking issues and to merge a feature branch into the develop branch requires a pull request that needs to be approved by at least 2 group members to merge into main branch.