Crypto Alerts

Set price alerts for cryptocurrency pairs and receive Telegram notifications https://rafaelarcieri.com/

Technologies

• AWS (EC2, ECS, ELB, Target Groups, IAM roles, SQS, SecretManager, etc)
• MongoDB
• Nodejs
• Docker

Supported Exchanges

• Binance
• Bitmex

Architecture

Fully dockerized application running on a EC2 server with an Application Load Balancer. Thus the application is loosely coupled and ready for scaling when needed.

Containers

1. Web Server (API consumed by Frontend React https://github.com/Rafael17/cryptoalerts-frontend)
2. Telegram Service (polling Telegram API)
3. Exchange Agreggator Service (fetches exchange price data and compares it to user created alerts)

Local Installation

1. Create a bot in Telegram using BotFather from your mobile phone and add TELEGRAM_API_KEY and BOT_NAME from BotFather in .env file
2. clone and run npm run build on CryptoAlerts FrontEnd React and move the resulting dist files into dist folder for the current repo
3. Install docker

Then run:

$ docker-compose -f docker-compose-local.yml up -d

And open browser to http://localhost:80