github.com/xie-hui/crypto-visualizer-api

Crypto-Visualizer-API

The backend API Gateway (reverse proxy) for Cypto-Visualizer

usage:

All AJAX requests toward https://crypto-visualizer-api.herokuapp.com/ will forward to https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/data/ with api_key set.

example: request to https://crypto-visualizer-api.herokuapp.com/price?fsym=BTC&tsyms=USD,JPY,EUR will equal to https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/data/price?fsym=BTC&tsyms=USD,JPY,EUR?api_key=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

backend

The data is fetched from cyptocompare api and reverse-proxy as API gateway. You should create your own .env in the root folder. example:

PROXY_URL=https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/data/
PORT=8000
SUFFIX=api_key=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

after that, run source .env to load the variable into environment

deployment

This api service uses Heroku for deployment. some tools and command used:

• heroku config: quickly push/pull environment variables to/from heroku
• Godep: automatic generate dependencies for go project
• heroku command:
  • Login: heroku login
  • Create a new heroku project: heroku create [yourAppName]
  • Deploy master to heroku: git push heroku master
• a Procfile (with no extension) is required for heroku to know how to start the app. Here, web: [yourRepositoryName] will tell heroku that is app will be an http app.