This is a currency converter that uses Fixer's data to correctly convert rates between different currencies.
The rates are updated every 2 hours.
Go to the live link to use the website.
Additionally, you can run it locally by running node server.js after edditing line 222 on server.js from
app.listen(process.env.PORT, () => console.log('Currency converter listening'))
to
app.listen(3000, () => console.log('Currency converter listening'))
Make sure to first install all needed packages by running
npm install
This should run the node server and the page should be live on localhost:3000
This project used the following technologies:
- Node.js
- Javascript
- HTML
- CSS
- heroku(for deployment)
- This currency converter automatically does API calls for fresh rates every 2 hrs.
- It holds the rates server side.
- All the available currencies are updated dynamically.
- All the calculations and conversions are done server side resulting into the api Key being hidden very efficiently. This also results in a faster fetch as the server has been holding data and isn't relying on getting live rates from the external API.