Gold Price Tracker

Problem

Describe the user pain, gap, or technical challenge that motivated the work.

Solution

A public price-tracking site with live spot prices, historical pages, SEO-friendly static updates, social links, and finance API fallbacks.

Tech Stack

JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Node.js, Yahoo Finance, Gold-API

Features

• Live precious metals pricing
• Historical monthly gold price pages
• SEO-oriented embedded price updates
• Currency and FX fallback support
• AdSense and consent configuration

Architecture & Development Process

Challenges

• Keeping browser price requests reliable across API outages and CORS limits
• Aligning current spot prices with previous closes and session-open calculations

Lessons Learned

• Static pages can still feel fresh when build scripts update important data
• Financial data products need multiple fallback sources and clear caching rules

Roadmap

• More metal history pages
• Cleaner charting
• More resilient data-source monitoring