How I Built a Real-Time Crypto Dashboard with CoinStats API and React

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A developer built a real-time crypto dashboard in React with CoinStats as the sole data source.
The single-page app includes market stats, a sortable coin table, inline price charts, and a news feed.
The article details the JSON structures returned by the API and how the UI was assembled in React, Vite 5, Tailwind CSS v4, and Recharts.
A key takeaway is that the correct global stats endpoint is /markets, not the outdated /global in the docs.
The piece also shows how CoinStats helped avoid rate limits, missing features, and paywalls from competing crypto APIs.

