currency-exchanger-js

Currency Exchanger JS

A light-weight currency converter module that fetches exchange rates daily from here.

Getting Started

Installation

This package can be installed using npm

npm install currency-exchanger-js

or yarn

yarn add currency-exchanger-js

Usage

Import currency-exchanger-js.

const converter = require('currency-exchanger-js');

Use the function you require. There are 2 available functions: convertOnDate and convert.

convertOnDate

Parameters:

• value: number
• fromCurrency: string
• toCurrency: string
• inputDate: Date

Use this method when you need to convert between currencies using the exchange rates on a specific date.

This example converts 1SGD to MYR using the exchange rates on 12th August 2022. Since it returns a promise, you need to use await.

const sgdToMyr = await converter.convertOnDate(1, "sgd", "myr", new Date("2022-08-12"));

Alternatively, you could use then.

converter.convertOnDate(1, "sgd", "myr", new Date("2022-08-12")).then((res) => {
  console.log(res)); // or do something else
});

Note that the date input accepts any valid JavaScript Date object. To find out the possible ways to instantiate valid Date objects, refer here.

convert

Parameters:

• value: number
• fromCurrency: string
• toCurrency: string

Use this method when you need to convert between currencies using the exchange rates of today. Similarly, it returns a promise. The following examples show how you can convert 5SGD to MYR using today's exchange rates.

const sgdToMyr = await converter.convert(5, "sgd", "myr");

converter.convert(5, "sgd", "myr").then((res) => {
  console.log(res)); // or do something else
});

Currency

For the currency strings (specifically fromCurrency and toCurrency), please refer to the keys of this JSON here. These are internationally recognized currency acronyms.

Limitations

Due to having dependencies on another repo, it faces the same limitations as that repo, mainly being:

• Historical exchange rates do not go further than 1st Jan of last year
• There could be a possibility of some dates being missing if the scripts from that repo messes up

Issues

If you find any issues, please report them ❗here❗

License

This project is licensed under the ISC license.

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