Quantitative Platform

A lightweight backtesting platform with a Go backend and a React (Vite + MUI) frontend. Create strategies, run backtests, and view results in the UI.

• Backend: serves REST endpoints for strategies and backtest jobs (list, create, run, get results). Listens on http://localhost:8080.
• Frontend: React app for managing strategies and viewing results. Talks to the backend at http://localhost:8080.

Example

Here is an example of the application being used, backtesting AAPL using the moving average strategy:

Repository structure

• backend/ — Go API server and backtesting engine
• frontend/ — React UI (Vite, Material UI)
• docs/ — documentation and notes

Prerequisites

• Go (recent 1.x)
• Node.js and npm
• air (optional but required by backend/pipeline.sh)
  • The backend pipeline uses the Air live-reload tool. If you don’t have it installed, install it first (for example: brew install air or go install github.com/cosmtrek/air@latest).

Running the apps

Open two terminals.

1. Start the backend (port 8080):

cd backend
./pipeline.sh

This runs the Go server with Air. If you prefer without Air, you can run go run . instead.

2. Start the frontend (Vite dev server, typically http://localhost:5173):

cd frontend
./pipeline.sh

The frontend is configured to call the backend at http://localhost:8080 (see frontend/src/Fetch.ts). If you change the backend port, update those URLs accordingly.

Notes

• Strategy parameters and backtest configuration are editable directly in the table UI. “Run” posts the job; “Results” opens a dialog once the result is available.