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DevBlog #3 - Fintech Platform

    Welcome to the first-ever, well-defined, and well-planned version of the fintech platform. In this post I will do my best to describe what I am doing, what I am trying to learn, the next steps, and more. Enjoy!

1) Why MERN?

    Choosing a framework to begin the development of this app was one of the most difficult things I have ever done. I watched countless YouTube videos, read a crazy amount of web articles and so much more. I had to find a stack that people would employ me to use in the future, I had to find something that could connect to all of the different blockchains and tools, and had to find something that I could learn, and that had a big community and ecosystem around it. I first tried ASP.NET thinking I could use it since I was already pretty good at C#, but no. No community, no ecosystem, no platform and network integration, and too steep of a learning curve (for web development, and small compared to other stacks). I then tried learning to Go. I did a bunch of small projects, getting to know it, but it did not have the same amount of integrations as other stacks. I finally landed on MERN. I did a bunch of projects following dozens of tutorials and watching a couple of free online university course videos about React, js, mongo, and more. But I finally realized that it would take me too long to learn by watching, so I decided to just jump into it.


2) Where We Are Right Now: 

    At this moment, I have deployed the client and the backend server that will be the development platform and ecosystem for my fintech platform. If you are interested in seeing what it is I am developing, zoom in on the screenshot below. I have just finished establishing the API connection from the front end to the back end and a basic landing page. I have also set up the majority of the UI and navigation/router-based libraries and tools to make it so I can navigate around these blank pages.





3) What is Next (Short Term):

    I need to set up a basic user authentication system. This means connecting to Mongo, and setting up account creation and sign-in functionality. I also need to make it so that navigation to these pages it prohibited unless you have logged in or signed up. This is going to be new for me, meaning I am going to have to do some more research on how this is done, and how to do it securely.


3) What is Next (Long Term):

    I am going to have to install all of the blockchain libraries and begin establishing connections to their networks. This will have me creating accounts with some network providers (Alchemy, Infura, Moralis). Then I will have to create a dashboard where the user will be able to interact and manage their crypto. In addition to this, I will have to integrate with dapps and crypto service providers (Ramp, MetaMask, etc.). This part will probably be the most difficult for me. Not the API or server interactions, but designing clean, sleek, and modern-looking UI. I hate front-end work. :(


    In conclusion, it has not been an empty couple of months, but unfortunately, I don't have too many materialistic things to show for all of this time and progress. However, over the next couple of months, I hope to create something that will help change the world for the better.

    That's all folks, thanks for reading/listening/spending time.

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