I am new to Javascript and I've been learning how to import a country's attributes into an HTML element. Some of you might recognize this code, it's from a tutorial, which is now outdated. I've been searching around for an updated solution, but couldn't find any.
First I have the function to fetch the data:
const getCountryData = function (country) {
fetch(`https://restcountries.com/v3.1/name/${country}`)
.then(response => response.json())
.then(data => renderCountry(data[0]));
};
Then I call that function, supplying a country getCountryData('czechia') to infuse it into an element like this:
const renderCountry = function(data, className = '') {
const html = `
<article class="country ${className}">
<img class="country__img" src="${data.flags.svg}" />
<div class="country__data">
<h3 class="country__name">${data.name.common}</h3>
<h4 class="country__region">${data.region}</h4>
<p class="country__row">${(+data.population / 1000000).toFixed(1)} people</p>
<p class="country__row">${data.fifa}</p>
</div>
</article>
`
countriesContainer.insertAdjacentHTML
('beforeend', html);
countriesContainer.style.opacity = 1;
}
This works fine, but the issue is that at the end of the HTML, where I input {data.fifa} I want to have the name of the country's main currency instead. Unfortunately, the data is structured in a way, that in order to have the currency's name displayed, I first have to call it's short name, as shown below:
"currencies": {
"CZK": {
"name": "Czech koruna",
"symbol": "Kč"
}
},
If I call the {data.currencies} into the string, I'm just gonna get an empty object back. If I call it as {currencies.CZK.name}, it works, but the issue is that if I call Sweden, for example, it won't display anything, because then it'd need to be {currencies.SEK.name}. How do I get around this? How can I can call a currency's name without having to incorporate CZK, SEK, USD, EUR etc. into the variable?
Any help is appreciated.
You can transform that object into an array:
const currencyArray = Object.values(data.currencies)
console.log(currencyArray[0].name)
If the country has many currencies, just change the index from 0 to 1, 2, ...