How to build a real-time trading dashboard with Socket.io and trade-data-generator

How to Build a Real-Time Trading Dashboard with Socket.io and trade-data-generator Building a trading UI is exciting — until you realize you need live market data to test it. Real data feeds cost thousands per month. Free APIs have rate limits. Hardcoded data looks broken on charts. In this tutorial we'll build a fully working real-time trading dashboard in under 30 minutes using trade-data-generator and Socket.io — no API keys, no rate limits, no cost. Here's what we're building: Live candlesti