vgo-trade-site

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vgo-trade-site is a simple trading site for VGO, build to show off the WAX Expresstrade API.

You can support my projects by using my DigitalOcean referral link (bonus $10 when you deposit $5): https://m.do.co/c/126d9f75d958

You may use the site for commercial purposes free of charge.

Setup

Video tutorial

You can find a video tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7EyEQszX94

Quick local setup

First, make sure you have node.js installed, which you can do here: https://nodejs.org/

The site is extremely easy to get up and running. First, download ZIP, and extract it (I'll extract to my documents)

Then, open CMD (for Windows), or Terminal (Max/Linux), and change to the vgo-trade-site-master directory:

$ cd /Users/Almatrass/Documents/vgo-trade-site-master

First, rename the .env.example file to .env.

Now, open the .env file in a text editor:

$ open ./config/.env

You should update the .env file with your OPSkins API Key and OPSkins Secret Values.

Now, open the config.js file in a text editor:

$ open ./config/config.js

All the config stuff is commented nicely, and you shouldn't have too much bother with it. The only important thing is the returnUrl value.

returnUrl

The returnUrl value should stay the same if running locally. Make sure to include the port if it's not 80 or 443.

returnUrl: 'http://localhost/auth/opskins/authenticate'
// Becomes
returnUrl: 'http://234.73.93.159:4073/auth/opskins/authenticate'

opskinsApiKey and opskinsSecret

You can find your OPSkins API key on the OPSkins website in your advanced options of your account.

To access the secret, you need to setup 2FA on your account with a program that supports secret exports.

You can find one for Chrome here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/authenticator/bhghoamapcdpbohphigoooaddinpkbai.

Consult the video tutorial if you're still having problems.

The API and secret values are used for the account sending the bot trades.

The API key is also used for OPSkins login.

All other config stuff is optional for the functionality of the site, but look through it and edit what you like.

Install modules

You should still be in the directory you have your site, in my case /Users/Almatrass/Documents/vgo-trade-site-master

Run

$ npm i

Now you're ready, run:

$ npm start

Visit 'localhost' in your browser, and the site should be fully functional.

Deploying to VPS

First step is creating a VPS. You can do this with a site like DigitalOcean.

You will receive a bonus $10 when you deposit $5 if you use my referral link here: https://m.do.co/c/126d9f75d958

Refer to the video tutorial for creating a new droplet.

Once the droplet is created, you will need two programs: Filezilla and PuTTY (or a built-in SSH client).

First, use Filezilla to logon to the server, then switch to your / directory.

Create a new directory called vgo-trade, or whatever you like, then enter it.

You can do this from your console if you prefer

$ mkdir /vgo-trade

At this point you want to move all the files into this directory from your local machine, but be sure to omit the node modules folder, or this will take forever.

Now login via PuTTY, and change into the directory.

$ cd /vgo-trade

Run pwd to check where you are, if all is good, you'll see this:

/vgo-trade

Now you can run

$ npm i

again to install the node modules.

Before spawning our process forever, test if the server is working, by running:

$ node ./index.js

Visit your IP address in a browser, and you should see the site.

We will now use PM2 to keep our process running forever:

$ npm i -g pm2

The -g argument means the package will be installed globally, so we can use it anywhere on our system for other projects later!

Now, in your /vgo-trade directory, you can simply run:

$ pm2 start ./index.js

To view process logs at anytime, you can logon to your VPS and run

$ pm2 logs index

If your node server crashes, PM2 will automatically spawn a new process.

If your droplet crashes or reboots, simply come back on and spawn the process again:

$ pm2 start /vgo-trade/index.js

or

$ cd /vgo-trade
$ pm2 start ./index.js

Editing the code

All HTML files are located in the views directory.

All public files (js, css and images) are located in the public directory.

All the backend code is located in the server directory.

Please open an issue if you discover any bugs.