Currency Conversion

By Emma Gerigscott

Select a currency to see the current conversion rate

Technologies Used

• API calls
• Javascript
• fetch and async
• HTML
• CSS
• npm
• Node.js
• ESLint
• Jest
• Babel
• Dotenv

Description

A currency conversion webpage that accesses up-to-date currency exchange APIs and supported country codes through asynchronous fetch calls. Mainly to practice calling promises, asynchronous methods, and chaining promises.

Setup/Installation Requirements

• Clone this repository to your desktop
• Navigate to the root directory in your terminal and run

$ npm install

• In the root directory, create a file called .env

$ touch .env

• Go to Exchange Rate API and create a free account to access an API token.
• With your API token, navigate to your .env folder and save your token to API_KEY.

API_KEY={YOUR API TOKEN}

• After all packages are installed and your personal API token is saved to the .env file, to start the project's server, in the root directory in your terminal run

$ npm run start

Known Bugs

• Needs some pizazz, frankly

License

Copyright (c) 2023 Emma Gerigscott