Bitnanas
FINRA Investors protection challenge for Bitcamp 2018.
What it does
The Web app uses an in-game currency named Bitnana which is used to guide the college students willing to know more about investments. Once registered and logged in, the user can have access to:
- a list of tutorials, which keeps track of their activities and rewards them accordingly with bitnanas;
- a simulation page, allowing the user to learn how to trade and along with the risks associated with each transaction;
- and a discussion board.
Getting Started
The following instructions will guide you on how to make the project work on your local machine for development and testing purposes.
Installing
Bitnana uses MeteorJS as framework to get a customizable HTML/CSS/JS workspace with automatic package management.
Running the app
After installing meteor, open a console and enter
cd C:\<path>\<to>\<project>\dev
meteor
Meteor will begin by installing the dependencies of the project and then you will be able to test Bitnana via localhost:3000.
Challenges we ran into
Bitnana relies on Meteor: a JavaScript framework allowing developers to build a full-stack application. Since the team lacks experience in web development, being able to edit the front-end and the back-end would give a good playground to work with.
Unfortunately, Meteor tools were not working on our workspaces; it became impossible to execute the project correctly. Even by searching the internet, it was apparent that this problem occurred to other developers and there were no known solutions. The team, afterward, focused on the UI/UX aspect.
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