A JS application to calculate an exchange rate between two currencies based on the ExchangeRate-API
By Henry Oberholtzer
- JavaScript
- Bootstrap
- HTML
- CSS
- Webpack
- ExchangeRate-API
- User should be able to enter an amount in USD
- User should be able to specify a currency to convert to
- User should recieve the USD amount converted to their currency of choice
- User should have access to at least five different currencies
- User should see a message in the DOM when an error is recieved
- If a particular currency is not available to convert from, user should recieve a message in the DOM to that effect
- Allow for converting between all currency types
- Allow for conversion to and from USD
- Cache API results
- Dropdown menu for currencies
- Application must make an API call
- Application must parse data from the API call
- Application must handle errors when the API does not retrun 200 OK status
- Application must use a static method in a class
- Application must seperate UI logic & business logic
- Application must use webpack
- A personal API key must first be obtained from ExchangeRate-API
- Download the repository using
git clone https://github.com/henry-oberholtzer/currency-exchange.gitin terminal or downloading the ZIP folder from github - Create a ".env" file in the root folder containing
API_KEY=YOURAPIKEYHERE - Run "npm install" in terminal in the root folder
- To view the application, run
npm run start
- Not mobile responsive
- Queries that result in a number over 4 digits will break out of the UI.
Copyright Henry Oberholtzer (c) 2023
Code licensed under GNU GPLv3
Public Domain Images Used:
Woodcut of a cat from Provenance Online Project, 2011
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