What framework to use for writing a live ticker website.

[lavenderp]

Lets have a look at this examle http://bitcointicker.co/ and discuss what is best to set this price ticker up. I am new to those complex type of websites with frequent calls to exchange side API's.
What framework would you choose to make it work on a self-hosted server?

http://o65.tinypic.com/2ef59c9.png

I started to learn full-stack Python with Django, as everything comes out of the box. Bitcointicker.co seems to be build on node.js after I found this repo https://github.com/btccointicker/website-live-connection-map
Further features would be:

• mail notification triggered on certain price level
• Graphs to show market depth and price history, so I will have to interface with a database - preferably MySQL

 What are your suggestions - should I rather use some other framework?
I did not find a profound tutorial yet.

[jmigdlc99]

What is your experience in web development?

Will the ticker be for your own personal consumption? If so, I believe the easiest (due to the vast number of resources and guides online) would be to use straight PHP. What you're trying to do is very specific and using a framework would only increase the learning curve and give you lots of functions and features that you would generally never use.

That being said, I would first look into how to use PHP and HTTPS and familiarize yourself with the API from which you want to collect data from (coindesk api, karken api, etc.). Try simply printing the values and refreshing them on a web page first. Then afterwards, look into PHPMAILER to send email automatically from your php page/app.

Hope this helps!