@locale-tools/currency

List of all currencies and a currency conversion tool.

Installation

Install a given package with npm or yarn.

npm install @locale-tools/currency

yarn add @locale-tools/currency

Usage

A full list of all circulated currencies can be found in src/data/currencies.json.

import { currencies } from "@locale-tools/currency";

Types

// currency object type
type Currency = {
  name: CurrencyNamesByISO4217 | string;
  shortName: CurrencyNamesByISO4217;
  iso_4217: ISO4217;
  symbol: CurrencySymbolsByISO4217 | string;
  subunit: string | null;
  subunitToUnit: number | null;
  prefix: string | null;
  suffix: string | null;
  decimalMark: string | null;
  decimalPlaces: number | null;
  thousandsSeparator: string | null;
};

// ISO4217 currency codes
enum ISO4217 {}
ISO4217.USD; // "USD"

// currency names by ISO4217 codes
enum CurrencyNamesByISO4217 {}
CurrencyNamesByISO4217.USD; // "United States Dollar"

// currency 'short' names by ISO4217
enum CurrencyShortNamesByISO4217 {}
CurrencyShortNamesByISO4217.USD; // "dollar"

// currency symbols by ISO4217
enum CurrencySymbolsByISO4217 {}
CurrencySymbolsByISO4217.USD; // "quot;

Methods

getConversionRate({ from, to }): number | Error

Returns the conversion rate between 2 currencies. Returns an error if one is encountered, this function utilizes the free version of the currconv api.

Parameter	Type	Description	Default
from	ISO4217	The ISO4217 currency code to convert from	Required
to	ISO4217	The ISO4217 currency code to convert to	Required

import { getConversionRate, ISO4217 } from "@locale-tools/currency";

// returns the conversion rate from us dollar to euro
const conversionRate = getConversionRate({
  from: ISO4217.USD, // you can also pass the string code if you prefer
  to: ISO4217.EUR
});