Alpaca Partner Backend

Python implementation of the backend for a trading app leveraging Alpaca's Broker API, alpaca-py and FastAPI.

Using

Python package: to add and install this package as a dependency of your project, run poetry add alpaca-partner-backend.

Python application: to serve this REST API, run docker compose up app and open localhost:8000 in your browser. Within the Dev Container, this is equivalent to running poe api.

Contributing

Prerequisites

1. Set up Git to use SSH

1. Generate an SSH key and add the SSH key to your GitHub account.
2. Configure SSH to automatically load your SSH keys:

   cat << EOF >> ~/.ssh/config
   Host *
     AddKeysToAgent yes
     IgnoreUnknown UseKeychain
     UseKeychain yes
   EOF

2. Install Docker

1. Install Docker Desktop.
   • Enable Use Docker Compose V2 in Docker Desktop's preferences window.
   • Linux only:
     • Configure Docker to use the BuildKit build system. On macOS and Windows, BuildKit is enabled by default in Docker Desktop.
     • Export your user's user id and group id so that files created in the Dev Container are owned by your user:

       cat << EOF >> ~/.bashrc
       export UID=$(id --user)
       export GID=$(id --group)
       EOF

3. Install VS Code or PyCharm

1. Install VS Code and VS Code's Dev Containers extension. Alternatively, install PyCharm.
2. Optional: install a Nerd Font such as FiraCode Nerd Font and configure VS Code or configure PyCharm to use it.

Development environments

The following development environments are supported:

1. ⭐️ GitHub Codespaces: click on Code and select Create codespace to start a Dev Container with GitHub Codespaces.
2. ⭐️ Dev Container (with container volume): click on [Open in Dev Containers](https://vscode.dev/redirect?url=vscode://ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers/cloneInVolume?url= https://github.com/Ale-Cas/alpaca-partner-backend ) to clone this repository in a container volume and create a Dev Container with VS Code.
3. Dev Container: clone this repository, open it with VS Code, and run Ctrl/⌘ + ⇧ + P → Dev Containers: Reopen in Container.
4. PyCharm: clone this repository, open it with PyCharm, and configure Docker Compose as a remote interpreter with the dev service.
5. Terminal: clone this repository, open it with your terminal, and run docker compose up --detach dev to start a Dev Container in the background, and then run docker compose exec dev zsh to open a shell prompt in the Dev Container.

Developing

• Run poe from within the development environment to print a list of Poe the Poet tasks available to run on this project.
• Run poetry add {package} from within the development environment to install a run time dependency and add it to pyproject.toml and poetry.lock. Add --group test or --group dev to install a CI or development dependency, respectively.
• Run poetry update from within the development environment to upgrade all dependencies to the latest versions allowed by pyproject.toml.