AndrewJBateman / ionic-angular-weatherapi

:clipboard: App to display weather data from a weather API using the Ionic 5 framework.

Ionic Angular WeatherApi

• App to display weather data from the Weatherstack weather API using the Ionic framework.
• Some changes were made to the code so it would work in the latest Angular version.
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Table of contents

• Ionic Angular WeatherApi
  • Table of contents
  • 📚 General info
  • 📷 Screenshots
  • 📶 Technologies
  • 💾 Setup
  • 💻 Code Examples
  • 🆒 Features
  • 📋 Status & To-do list
  • 👏 Inspiration
  • 📁 License
  • ✉️ Contact

📚 General info

• The Weatherstack weather API is a fully managed weather API platform that provides extensive APIs that supply the following data:

• Real-time weather

• Up to 14 day weather forecast

• Historical weather inforamtion

• Astronomy

• Time zone

• Geolocation data

📷 Screenshots

📶 Technologies

• Ionic v6
• Angular v15
• Ionic/angular v6
• Ionic storage-angular v3
• Weatherstack weather API

💾 Setup

• npm i to install dependencies
• Get yourself an API key from weatherstack.com and add to weather.service.ts line 4
• To start the server on localhost://8100 type: 'ionic serve'

💻 Code Examples

• Extract from weather.service.ts that gets data from the API.

export class WeatherService {

  constructor(private httpClient: HttpClient) {}

  getWeatherFromApi(city: string) {
    return this.httpClient.get(`http://api.weatherstack.com/current?access_key=${apiKey}&query=${city}`);
  }
}

• Extract from list.page.ts function to get API weather data.

getWeather() {
  this.ionicStorage.get('city').then( city => {
    if (city === null) {
      this.weatherService.getWeatherFromApi('madrid').subscribe( weather => {
        this.weather = weather;
        console.log(weather);
      });
    } else {
      this.weatherService.getWeatherFromApi(city).subscribe( weather => {
        this.weather = weather;
        console.log(weather);
      });
    }

  }).catch(err => {
    console.log(err);
  });
}

🆒 Features

• Searches for weather data in any city of the world
• Ionic storage module used

📋 Status & To-do list

• Status: Working.
• To-do: Add to menu options - list of cities searched for etc. Convert to use Angular async pipe

👏 Inspiration

• Aldo Caamal: Simple Weather App ( Ionic 4 / Angular 7 / Apixu API ).

📁 License

• This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.

✉️ Contact

• Repo created by ABateman, email: [e-mail]