Currency Exchanger

This is an application where users can type in US dollars and choose which currency it should be converted to.

By Paige Tiedeman

Technologies Used

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• JQuery
• Bootstrap
• Jest
• ESLint
• Babel
• Webpack
• Popper
• Package.json
• NPM
• ExchangeRate-API

Description

This simple HTML site uses Javascript and ExchangeRate-API keys to convert US dollars to currencies from multiple countries in the dropdown list.

Setup/Installation Requirements

• Clone or download the zip file of this repository to your desktop
• Open in a text editor
• If you are using a Mac: open the package.json and find the scripts property, change the line "start": "npm run build & webpack-dev-server --open --mode development", to "start": "npm run build; webpack-dev-server --open --mode development"
• Commit and push your .gitignore file to your repo
• Run $ npm install
• Check title on package.json and webpack file
• Go to https://www.exchangerate-api.com/ and generate an API Key
• Type $ touch .env to create a document to save your API key as API_KEY={your key here}
• Type $ npm run build, to build your environment
• Type $ npm run start, to open in your browser
• Enter in an amount of US Dollars in the first input
• Select your conversion rate by country code, hit convert button

Known Bugs

• N/A

License

MIT

Copyright (c) 2021 Paige Tiedeman

Contact Information

Paige Tiedeman @ github.com/paigetiedeman