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Rohit Sharma
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Crypto price tracker with JS

#javascript #beginners #webdev #tutorial

Hello Everyone! Today we are going to create a website which gives us current price of any crypto currency listed on coingecko. For this project we are going to use Coingecko API Free version.

HTML

We have to use two <select>. In the first <select> we create some <options>,which user select to get current price of Cryptocurrency(for example: bitcoin, ethereum etc.) and in the second <select> we create <options> for currency (example: usd, inr etc.)

We also need to create a button, onclick we call our API.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>CoinRate</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="container">
        <div id="header">
            <h1>CoinRate</h1>
        </div>
        <div id="inputs">
            <div id="selectCrypto">
                <select id="crypto">
                    <option>bitcoin</option>
                    <option>ethereum</option>
                    <option>solana</option>
                    <option>aave</option>
                </select>
            </div>
            <div id="btn">
                <button>Check Price</button>
            </div>
            <div id="selectCurrency">
                <select id="currency">
                    <option>usd</option>
                    <option>inr</option>

                </select>
            </div>

        </div>
        <div id="outputs"> 
            <br>
            <div id=price>Price</div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <footer>Copyright &copy; CoinRate (Coingecko API) <a href='https://www.freepik.com/vectors/logo'>Logo vector created by freepik - www.freepik.com</a> </footer>
    <script src="main.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
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CSS

You can style your webpage as according to you. My CSS code for this project is given below

*{
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    color: #ffff;
}
body{
    height: 100vh;
    width: 100vw;
    background: url(/5499459.jpg);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-size: cover;
}
.container{
    display: grid;
    height: 90vh;
    grid-template-columns: 25% 50% 25%;
    grid-template-rows: 25% 30% 20% 25%;
    grid-template-areas:
    "header header header"
    ". inputs ."
    ". outputs ."
    "footer footer footer";
}
#header{
    grid-area: header;
    display: grid;
    place-items: center;
}
footer{
    display: grid;
    place-items: center;
}
#inputs{
    grid-area:inputs;
    display: grid;
    grid-template-columns: repeat(2,1fr);

    grid-template-rows: 1fr 1fr;
    grid-template-areas: 
    "selectCrypto selectCurrency"
    "btn btn";
    place-items: center;
}
#btn{
    grid-area: btn;

}
button{
    background: transparent;
    border: 2px solid #9eeaf0;
    font-size: 1.5rem;
    border-radius: 2em;
}
button:hover{
    background: #9eeaf0;
    color: #333;
}

#selectCrypto{
    grid-area: selectCrypto;
}
#selectCurrency{
    grid-area: selectCurrency;
}
#outputs{
    grid-area:outputs;
    display: grid;
    place-items: center;
}
#inpCrypto{
    margin-top: 1rem;
    border: 1px solid rgb(21, 236, 243);
    width: max-content;
}
#inpCrypto{
    margin-top: 1rem;
    border: 1px solid rgb(21, 236, 243);
    width: max-content;

}
#price{
    margin-top: 1rem;
    border: 1px solid rgb(21, 236, 243);
    width: max-content;
    z-index: 1;
    display: none;
    font-size: 1.2rem;
    background: rgb(215,215,215);
    color: black;

}
select{
    background: transparent;
    width: 5rem;
    border: 2px solid #9eeaf0;
    color: black;
    border-radius: 2em;
    font-size: 1em;
    height: 2em;
    width: 5em;
}
select:hover{
    background: #9eeaf0;
}
option{

    color: black;
}
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JavaScript

This is the most important part of this project.
Grab the all important elements.

let price = document.getElementById('price');
let btn = document.getElementById('btn');
let cryptoInp = document.querySelector('#crypto');
let currencyInp = document.querySelector('#currency');
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Now add an event listener to btn which fire getPrice() function

btn.addEventListener('click',getPrice);
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Now we'll write our getPrice() fuunction. We use AJAX for this project.

function getPrice() {
    let crypto = cryptoInp.value;
    let currency = currencyInp.value;
    let xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
    xhr.open('GET','https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/simple/price?ids='+crypto+'&vs_currencies='+currency);

    xhr.onload = function(){
        if (this.status == 200) {
            data =  JSON.parse(this.responseText);
            price.innerHTML = "Current Price is "+data[crypto][currency]+" "+currency;
            price.style.display = 'block';

        }else{
            price.innerHTML = 'Error'
        }

    }
    xhr.send();

}
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