What is this
WeatherBoard is a weather dashboard app, that tracks weather across different cities.
It is a web app, that uses the OpenWeatherMap API to fetch the weather data. It has a simple and intuitive UI with support for adding and removing cities. It also has a chart that displays the weather data in a graphical format.
Inspiration
Wanted to re-visit flask and try out bulma.
Prerequisites
Before you begin, ensure you have met the following requirements:
- You have installed the latest version of
pythonandpip
Getting WeatherBoard
To install WeatherBoard, follow these steps:
git clone https://github.com/2kabhishek/WeatherBoard
cd WeatherBoard
pip install -r requirements.txt
export FLASK_APP=app.py
flask runHow it was built
WeatherBoard was built using flask, bulma, chartjs, sqlalchemy
Challenges faced
While building WeatherBoard the main challenges were setting up pyenv, finally found the solution using pyenv global and VSCode settings.
What I learned
- Re-visited
flaskafter a while and relearned a few things. - Learned more about python environment management with
pyenv. - Got to try out
bulma, pretty intuitive, want to use it in future projects. - Also tried out
chartjsalong with other plotting libraries likeplotly.
What's next
To-Do
- Setup repo
- Update dependencies
- Deploy
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