QuantDinger

Prerequisites

Tool	Version	Notes
Docker & Docker Compose	20+	required for the default setup
Python	3.10+	only if running backend outside Docker
Node.js	22 LTS	only if you maintain the private QuantDinger-Vue or mobile source repos

Quick Start (Docker)

# 1. Clone
git clone https://github.com/<your-org>/quantdinger.git
cd quantdinger

# 2. Configure
cp backend_api_python/env.example backend_api_python/.env
# Edit .env — at minimum set SECRET_KEY to a random value:
#   SECRET_KEY=$(python3 -c "import secrets; print(secrets.token_hex(32))")
# Optional: project-root `.env` with `IMAGE_PREFIX` if Docker Hub pulls are slow (see .env.example).

# 3. Launch
docker compose up -d --build

# 4. Open http://localhost:8888

The stack includes:

Service	Port	Description
frontend	8888	Nginx serving Vue SPA
backend	5000	Flask API (gunicorn)
postgres	5432	PostgreSQL 18
redis	6379	Cache layer (LRU, 128 MB)

Project Structure

quantdinger/
├── backend_api_python/          # Flask API
│   ├── app/
│   │   ├── config/              # Settings, API keys, DB config
│   │   ├── data_providers/      # Market data fetchers (crypto, forex, …)
│   │   ├── data_sources/        # Exchange/broker adapters (CCXT, yfinance, …)
│   │   ├── routes/              # Flask Blueprints (REST endpoints)
│   │   ├── services/            # Business logic (strategy, trading, AI, …)
│   │   └── utils/               # DB helpers, auth, caching, logger
│   ├── migrations/              # SQL schema + seed data
│   ├── gunicorn_config.py       # Production WSGI config
│   ├── run.py                   # App entrypoint
│   ├── Dockerfile
│   └── requirements.txt
├── docs/                        # Changelog, architecture notes
├── docker-compose.yml           # frontend service pulls ghcr.io/.../quantdinger-frontend
├── docker-compose.ghcr.yml      # backend, frontend, and mobile pulled from GHCR (zero-clone deploy)
└── README.md

Running Backend Locally (without Docker)

cd backend_api_python
python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate  # or .venv\Scripts\activate on Windows
pip install -r requirements.txt
cp env.example .env   # edit .env
python run.py

The dev server starts on http://localhost:5000 with auto-reload.

Frontend (private Vue repository)

The open-source tree does not contain Vue source or build artefacts. UI work happens in the private QuantDinger-Vue repo. Releases are fully automated:

# In QuantDinger-Vue
git tag v5.0.1
git push origin v5.0.1

The release-frontend.yml workflow there builds linux/amd64 + linux/arm64 images via buildx and pushes them to ghcr.io/openbyteinc/quantdinger-frontend, tagged with the semver value, {major}.{minor}, and latest.

This repo's docker-compose.yml (and docker-compose.ghcr.yml) references that image by default. To pin a version while testing:

# Project-root .env (sibling of docker-compose.yml)
# Common: bump both sides together
echo "IMAGE_TAG=5.0.1" >> .env

# Or pin only frontend (testing a UI hotfix against stable backend)
# echo "FRONTEND_TAG=5.0.1" >> .env

docker compose pull frontend
docker compose up -d frontend

Resolution order: FRONTEND_TAG (or BACKEND_TAG) → IMAGE_TAG → latest.

The container reads BACKEND_URL at start time and substitutes it into the nginx config via the official nginx:alpine envsubst hook, so the same image works for compose, Railway, and direct docker run.

Building frontend from local source

For iterating on Vue source (theme tweaks, debugging, customised UI), drop the source into the gitignored ./QuantDinger-Vue/ slot at the repo root and layer the docker-compose.build.yml override on top. The main docker-compose.yml only declares image: for frontend (so users who only pull never need the directory to exist); the override file adds the build: block:

# Expected layout — clone QuantDinger-Vue into ./QuantDinger-Vue/ at this repo root:
#   QuantDinger/
#     QuantDinger-Vue/                <- gitignored; clone goes here
#     backend_api_python/
#     docker-compose.yml
#     docker-compose.build.yml        <- enables local frontend build

git clone https://github.com/OpenByteInc/QuantDinger-Vue.git QuantDinger-Vue

# Build frontend from ./QuantDinger-Vue, pull everything else:
docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.build.yml up -d --build

# Rebuild after editing Vue source:
docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.build.yml build frontend

# Apply runtime config changes only:
docker compose restart frontend

Tip: drop COMPOSE_FILE=docker-compose.yml:docker-compose.build.yml into your root .env and plain docker compose up --build will pick up both files.

Key behaviour:

• Without the override: Compose pulls ghcr.io/.../quantdinger-frontend:<tag> as usual; ./QuantDinger-Vue/ does not need to exist.
• With the override: Compose builds from ./QuantDinger-Vue/ (or FRONTEND_SRC_PATH if set) and tags the result with whatever FRONTEND_TAG / IMAGE_TAG resolves to. The locally built image then satisfies plain docker compose up for subsequent runs until you docker compose pull frontend to overwrite it.

Source path override (keep the Vue clone somewhere else than ./QuantDinger-Vue/):

FRONTEND_SRC_PATH=/abs/path/to/QuantDinger-Vue \
  docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.build.yml up -d --build

Default backend behaviour is unaffected — it still builds from this repo's backend_api_python/. Only the frontend service uses the image/override-build split.

Adding a New Data Source

1. Create backend_api_python/app/data_sources/<name>.py implementing a class with get_ticker(symbol) and get_kline(symbol, timeframe, limit).
2. Register it in data_sources/factory.py.
3. If it serves the global market dashboard, add a fetcher in data_providers/ and wire it into the fallback chain.

Adding a New Exchange (Live Trading)

1. Create backend_api_python/app/services/live_trading/<exchange>.py inheriting from BaseLiveTrading.
2. Implement place_order, cancel_order, get_balance, etc.
3. Register in live_trading/factory.py.

Environment Variables

See backend_api_python/env.example for the full list. Key variables:

Variable	Required	Description
SECRET_KEY	yes	JWT signing key — must be changed from default
ADMIN_USER / ADMIN_PASSWORD	yes	Initial admin credentials
TWELVE_DATA_API_KEY	no	Twelve Data for forex/commodities
ADANOS_API_KEY	no	Optional Adanos Market Sentiment for US stock tickers
OPENAI_API_KEY or OPENROUTER_API_KEY	no	AI analysis features
CACHE_ENABLED	no	Set true to use Redis (auto-set in Docker)

Testing

cd backend_api_python
pip install pytest
pytest tests/ -v

Troubleshooting

• First-time Docker install or pull failures - see the bilingual Installation Troubleshooting guide for Docker Desktop proxy setup, Docker Hub pull errors, and Postgres data-version issues.

• "apikey parameter is incorrect" from Twelve Data — verify TWELVE_DATA_API_KEY in .env; Chinese stock data requires a paid plan.

• Heatmap "暂无数据" — usually caused by NaN in yfinance data; the global JSON encoder now sanitises all NaN/Inf to null.

• Redis connection refused — ensure redis service is running (docker compose up -d redis); set CACHE_ENABLED=false to fall back to in-memory cache.