Exchange Rate App

• Simple exchange rate app for EUR/INR.
• Using exchangerate.host service to fetch the rates
• Stores and Displays the history of conversions

Explanation of this repo

This repo was featured in Laravel Daily youtube channel

• Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSZqSUe4m7I
• Video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cSTC3AG3tQ

Tech Stack

• Laravel 10
• Livewire v3
• Bootstrap 5

Local Setup

Clone this project.

git clone [email protected]:jigarakatidus/exchange-rate.git

cd exchange-rate

Copy Environment

cp .env.example .env

In .env file

• Change DB_HOST to mysql
• Change CACHE_DRIVER to redis to use redis service, default is file driver

Install Dependency

docker run --rm -u "$(id -u):$(id -g)" -v $(pwd):/var/www/html -w /var/www/html laravelsail/php82-composer:latest composer install --ignore-platform-reqs

Start Services

./vendor/bin/sail up -d

Generate Key

./vendor/bin/sail artisan key:generate

Run Migrations

./vendor/bin/sail artisan migrate

To access

Visit: http://localhost

Services

Using Laravel Sail, a wrapper around Docker Compose.

It has:

Web Server

Serving the application

MySQL

Database

Redis

Caching

Suggestions?

Reach out to via Twitter: @jigar_dhulla