Crypto-Currency Market Watcher Built with Yii2
Some time ago I wanted to sink my teeth into Yii2. The completely rewritten framework built with PHP. To do so I decided to build a crypto-currency market watcher. My idea was to build a site that would download all market data at regular intervals from different exchanges and record the values, which could then be graphed and sorted in an effort to watch near real-time market trends.
It proved to be both fun and challenging. What I enjoyed a lot was using Composer to install Yii and third-party packages required to meet some tasks. Quite a lot changed with the new version of Yii. One of those is the way that you create and use components. But once you’ve got it, it makes sense with the new format.
At the time I built components for markets at Cryptsy and Mintpal but it is rather easy to add new crypto exchanges. If you use a marketplace that offer an API then you can most likely add it to Coinhawk.
It really is a pleasure to work with Yii2. If anyone would like to see the code and even run the site themselves, I have made the repo public on Github: https://github.com/doublehops/coinhawk
The repo includes a vagrant machine provisioned with Ansible so it’s incredibly easy for a developer to get started. I would love to hear some feedback