aurora

A simple, minimal desktop cryptocurrency tracker built with Electron.

Features • To-do List • Download • How to Contribute • Credits • License

Features

• Auto-syncs every 90 seconds
• Pulls data from CoinMarketCap
  • Select any of the 1300+ coins they support from an interactive drop-down list
• Filter/search to help you find your favorite coins
• Click to toggle display between USD/BTC price and volume & mcap/avail & total supply
• Settings include Satoshi -> USD and USD -> BTC converter that updates in real time
• Dark/Light mode, Opacity slider
• Cross platform
  • Windows and macOS
• [NEW!] Auto-updates. App will check for new versions on start and display a download icon in the top right corner. Click this to update and restart to the newest version
• [NEW!] Compact mode (based on binance desktop app)

To-do List/Feature Request

• Auto-updates (In-progress) ✓
• Compact mode ✓
• Highlight/scroll through coin list with arrow keys, 'enter' to select highlighted option

Known Issues

• A small number of coins currently have broken image links. Waiting on Coinmarketcap to fix these
• Graphical glitch on macOS when lowering the opacity. Ghosting of hidden elements showing through. (Could be caused by a gpu rendering error on my test machine)
• Auto-updates are currently disabled for macOS until I sign the app through xcode

Download

You can download the latest compiled version of aurora for Windows and macOS below, or visit the releases page!

   

How to Contribute

To clone and run this application, you'll need Git and Node.js (which comes with npm) installed on your computer. From your command line:

# Clone this repository
$ git clone https://github.com/brandonore/aurora

# Change directory into repository
$ cd aurora

# Install dependencies
$ npm install

# Run the app
$ npm start

Credits

This software was built with the following open source packages:

• Electron
• Node.js
• Request

All coin information pulled from the CoinMarketCap API

License

MIT

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