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Advanced Node.js Development
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Advanced Node.js Development

by Andrew Mead
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
592 pages
13h 44m
English
Packt Publishing
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The getExchangeRate function

To do that, over inside Atom, we're going to kick things off by creating a const axios; we're going to require axios, and then we're going to make const for one of our two functions. This is for the first endpoint getExchangeRate. Now, getExchangeRate is going to take two pieces of information: the from currency code and the to currency code:

// USD CAD 23// 23 USD is worth 28 CAD. You can spend these in the following countries:const axios = require('axios');const getExchangeRate = (from, to)

This is going to be a function. All we're going to do is use axios. That's axios.get, and we're going to pass in that URL that I just copied from the browser:

// USD CAD 23// 23 USD is worth 28 CAD. You can spend these in ...
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