Setup

You will need to be running at least PHP8.1

Run the following commands to get setup

composer install
npm install
cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate

Set DB_DATABASE in .env to your storage folder for your application location

php artisan migrate
php artisan db:seed

There will now be a default user of [email protected] and password is password

The application currently has one implementation for the CurrencyConverter interface which is Currency Layer. You will need to get an API key from https://currencylayer.com/quickstart and set CURRENCY_LAYER_API_KEY in your .env file with your API key

Running the application

Run the Vite dev server with the following command, which will allow for hot reload when any changes are made to the frontend code

npm run dev

Run the following to have the backend API running

php artisan serve

The following command will start the queue worker for processing background jobs

php artisan queue:work

You can now load the application in your browser at http://127.0.0.1:8000