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Advanced Node.js Development
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Advanced Node.js Development

by Andrew Mead
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
592 pages
13h 44m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating a currency-converter using the async/await function

This one is going to be called currency-convert.js and, as you can probably guess by the name, we're going to create a currency converter.

Essentially, this is just a function that takes three arguments. We're going to start off with the currency code for the currency we're starting with; in this case, let's say I have US dollars. Then there's the currency code we're trying to convert to; let's say I'm going up to Canada and I want to see how much my money is worth; and the amount we want to convert by.

So, this is essentially asking for the Canadian equivalent of 23 USD:

// USD CAD 23

We're going to be able to use any code we want and any value we want. Now, to actually get all ...

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