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Top 100 Crypto Updates from Coin Market Cap - Express Back-End

This back-end obtains coin market cap API data via axios. It then serves the data to the React-Front which displays it based on a search query.

Dependancies / Requirements

nodejs express axios cors nodemon (optional)

Setup

An API Key from Coin Market Cap is REQUIRED! You can obtain one from https://pro.coinmarketcap.com/login

Make sure nodejs is installed. in your console install and launch the following:

npm init
npm install express
npm install axios
npm install cors
npm install -g nodemon 

Next, open app.js and on line 18 paste your API key from coin market cap in the space provided.

you may start the app with:

nodemon app.js

Once your server is running, you may initiate the Front-end.