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bananefre/stock-market-app

Analysis updated 2026-05-18

142TypeScriptAudience · developerComplexity · 3/5Setup · moderate

TLDR

A tutorial stock market app built with Next.js that tracks real-time prices, sends alerts, and shows AI-generated company insights.

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    What it does
      Tracks stock prices
      Sends alerts
      Shows company insights
      AI summaries
    Tech stack
      Next.js
      TypeScript
      MongoDB
      Inngest
    Use cases
      Tutorial project
      Watchlists
      Price alerts
    Audience
      Developers
      Tutorial followers
    Setup
      npm install
      Configure .env
      Node.js required

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Follow along with the JavaScript Mastery tutorial to build a full stack Next.js finance app

USE CASE 2

Track real-time stock prices and set custom alerts for price or volume changes

USE CASE 3

Review company financial details like PE ratio, earnings per share, and analyst ratings

USE CASE 4

Learn how to wire up authentication, a database, and event-driven background jobs together

What is it built with?

Next.jsTypeScriptTailwindCSSShadcnMongoDBInngestBetter Auth

How does it compare?

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Complexity3/54/52/5
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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 1h+

Requires setting up MongoDB, Finnhub API access, and several environment variables before it runs.

In plain English

Stock-Market-app, also called Signalist in its own text, is a stock market tracking application built as the companion project for a JavaScript Mastery tutorial series on YouTube. It lets a user watch real time stock prices, set up personalized alerts, look at company financial details, and manage a watchlist of stocks they care about. The app is built with Next.js for the web framework, Shadcn for pre-built interface components, TailwindCSS for styling, and TypeScript throughout. Better Auth handles account sign in, including email and password login plus social sign on through providers like Google, GitHub, and Apple. MongoDB stores the app's data. Finnhub, a market data service, supplies the real time stock, forex, and news data the app displays. Inngest runs the background workflows, such as sending automated alerts, generating AI written daily digests, and delivering earnings notifications, while Nodemailer sends the resulting emails. On the features side, users get a dashboard with interactive line and candlestick charts and filters by industry or market cap, a search tool for finding stocks, a watchlist with configurable price and volume alert thresholds, and a company insights view showing metrics like PE ratio, earnings per share, revenue, and analyst ratings. There is also an admin dashboard for managing stock listings, publishing news, and viewing user activity, plus AI generated market summaries and sentiment scoring on top of the raw data. To run the project locally, you need Git, Node.js, and npm installed. You clone the repository, run npm install, and create a .env file with the required configuration values before starting the app. The README notes an active Discord community for people following along with the tutorial who need help setting things up. This project suits someone learning to build a full stack Next.js application with authentication, a real database, and event driven background jobs, using a stock tracking app as the example, rather than someone looking for a finished trading product to use as is.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Help me clone Stock-Market-app, install its dependencies with npm, and set up the required .env file
Prompt 2
Explain how Inngest is used in this project to automate alerts and daily digest emails
Prompt 3
Walk me through how Better Auth handles social sign in for this stock market app
Prompt 4
Show me how the watchlist and alert threshold feature is implemented in this codebase

Frequently asked questions

What is stock-market-app?

A tutorial stock market app built with Next.js that tracks real-time prices, sends alerts, and shows AI-generated company insights.

What language is stock-market-app written in?

Mainly TypeScript. The stack also includes Next.js, TypeScript, TailwindCSS.

How hard is stock-market-app to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 1h+ to a first successful run.

Who is stock-market-app for?

Mainly developer.

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