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XK Trading Floor Wiki

XK Trading Floor is a trading education and community platform: broker, prop firm and crypto exchange reviews, a blog, events, live spread comparison, verified-trader profiles, and dashboards for users, operators and admins. It is a full-stack application with a React + Vite frontend and an Express + MongoDB backend.

Built for XK Trading Floor by Stackified. The code is proprietary; see the repository's LICENSE.

• Production: xktradingfloor.com (deployed from main)
• Staging / portfolio build: https://stackified.github.io/xktradingfloor/ (deployed from dev)
• API: https://xktradingfloor-backend.onrender.com/api

Pages in this wiki

Page	What it covers
Architecture	How the frontend, backend, database, storage and email fit together
[[Getting Started	Getting-Started]]
Features	What each part of the site does and where the code lives
[[API Reference	API-Reference]]
Deployment	Production, staging, the backend host and the keep-warm job

Repository at a glance

frontend/     React 18 + Vite 7 single-page app (Tailwind, Redux Toolkit, React Router)
backend/      Express 4 API (Mongoose, JWT, Brevo, Cloudflare R2)
.github/      deploy (Bluehost), deploy-staging (GitHub Pages), keep-backend-warm workflows
.htaccess     Apache rewrite rules for the SPA on the production host

Tech stack

Layer	Main pieces
Frontend	React 18, Vite 7, React Router 6, Redux Toolkit, Tailwind CSS 3, Framer Motion, Recharts, TipTap editor, react-simple-maps, axios, DOMPurify
Backend	Node.js, Express 4, Mongoose 8 (MongoDB), jsonwebtoken, bcrypt, multer, helmet, EJS email templates, cheerio
Services	MongoDB, Cloudflare R2 (file storage), Brevo (email), Render (API host), Bluehost + Cloudflare (frontend host), Google Analytics / Tag Manager
Tooling	Playwright end-to-end tests, puppeteer-core prerender, GitHub Actions