Cryptocurrencies - Django Project

This is a simple Django web application that provides up-to-date cryptocurrency rates and a currency converter. The application fetches cryptocurrency data from the CoinGecko API, and also includes functionalities for caching and asynchronously fetching data to improve performance.

Features

1. Cryptocurrency List: The application fetches a list of cryptocurrencies along with their current prices in PLN.

2. Currency Converter: Allows conversion of a given amount of a selected cryptocurrency to PLN.

3. Cryptocurrency Chart: Displays a chart of a selected cryptocurrency's price over a selected number of days.

Tech Stack

1. Back-end: Django framework.

2. Front-end: HTML, CSS, Plotly for data visualization.

3. API: CoinGecko API.

4. Libraries: PyCoinGecko, Plotly, httpx, Django's built-in caching framework.

Instruction

1. Clone the repository to your local machine.

   git clone [email protected]:roberts911/Cryptocurrencies.git
   

2. Install the required packages using pip:

   pip install django httpx plotly pycoingecko
   

3. Start the Django server:

   python manage.py runserver
   

4. Open a web browser and navigate to localhost:8000 to access the application.

Author

Robert Siurek