rayepps/robot-shark

Robot Shark

"shred your finances"

A simple fake site that lets you log into a sandbox plaid account view account information 🤷‍♂️

API

Simple, almost a pure proxy to plaid. There really is no logic being done (which is a listed room for improvement).

setup

yarn

then copy the .env.example file to .env and replace the plaid client id and secret with any free sandbox account credentials.

run

yarn start

test

yarn test

Room for Improvement

• The front end is making three calls to get accounts, transactions, and institution data all to show on the dashboard. Possibly barring a data size issue these calls should probably be modified to be one-per-view so the front end only has to make a single call and the work to combine the data can be pushed back onto the API.
• For sake of simplicty the access_token is being stored in process memory. Obviously thats trash. Need to move it to frontend app/browser state and require it as auth for every API call.

APP

Again, simple, two pages. Click the Connect Account button, put in the sandbox creds user_good and pass_good and then view your accounts.

setup

yarn

run

yarn start

test

yarn test

Room for Improvement

• Improve error handling (UX) when API returns errors
• Improve UX in dashboard to show user which account is currently selected
• Store the access_token in state and send to API in each request
• More testing. I did smoke tests...