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About Currency Converter

Welcome!

Hi! I'm Don, I made this site, thanks for visiting ☺

Whenever I travel abroad, I typically create for myself a table of numbers featuring my home currency on one side and the local currency on the other. This helps me not get too confused when I'm buying things. Here's what it looks like: A handwritten table of values with GBP on the left and HUF on the right

I figured that as a geek, I could make a website that created the same table and then it'd not only help me, it could help you too.

Technical Details

To create this site I used:

  • The Fixer.io API to retrieve up to date foreign exchange rates
  • Money.js to perform the conversion calculations
  • Numeral.js to format the values and select the currency symbols, to add currencies for this site, I actually contributed to this project a little too
  • Bootstrap 3 to layout the pages
  • jQuery to update the table with the currencies you selected
  • GitHub to look after the version history
  • Visual Studio Code to manually craft the html pages
  • Paint.NET to create the logo
  • Adobe Online Color Wheel to select complementary colours for the logo
  • npm to download packages and store my aws upload script. For a laugh, look at the banner on their page, it has alternate expansions for what npm might stand for
  • and AWS (specifically S3 and Route 53) to host the site