Node.js Knockout - FBSE: Facebook Stock Exchange

Yesterday marked the end of Node.js Knockout.

It was two days, and nights, of coding with Francesco, Luca, Matteo, and Nicola. Luca traveled from Viterbo to Treviso to participate in the programming competition.

Our project, FBSE, is a stock exchange simulation game.

The main idea is to trade social stocks that gain and lose value according to people’s social interactions.

We worked hard to set it up and running, but we didn’t succeed. The project was a bit too ambitious given our limited knowledge of Node.js.

We used express.js as the web framework, mongoose ORM, everyauth, mongoose-auth to handle authentication, and redis to store trading data.

Stock prices and variations are updated in real-time using the Facebook Realtime API and socket.io.

Thanks to Giorgia for supporting us and for cooking pasta fredda, Massimo for the prototype idea, and Guglielmo for the logo design.