Money Exchange API

API for currency conversions in real time and historical usage trends - https://api-moneyexchange.herokuapp.com

Uses FireStore(NoSQL DB) for storing past conversions happened through this api and exchangeratesapi for getting latest exchange rates.

Tech stack:

• Node: Runtime
• Docker: Container
• Swagger: API specification and documentation
• Firestore: NoSql cloud database
• Jest, Chai: Testing
• TypeScript: Language
• Express: REST API
• Winston: Logging
• Morgan: HTTP Request logger
• Heroku: Cloud Deploymnet

Features

• /convert: convert any money value from one currency to another.
• /usage: get recent history of conversions.
• /currency: get list of currency symbols along with full names.

Installation

• https://github.com/udayvunnam/money-exchange-api.git
• cd money-exchange-api && npm install

Running in development mode

• npm run dev

Running with Docker

• Start docker application
• npm run docker-start

Swagger Documentation

After starting the server, swagger is available at http://localhost:8080/api-docs/

Running Unit tests

Run npm run test to execute tests with Jest