Frontend Mentor - REST Countries API with color theme switcher solution
This is a solution to the REST Countries API with color theme switcher challenge on Frontend Mentor. Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building realistic projects.
Table of contents
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Overview
The challenge
Users should be able to:
- See all countries from the API on the homepage
- Search for a country using an
inputfield - Filter countries by region
- Click on a country to see more detailed information on a separate page
- Click through to the border countries on the detail page
- Toggle the color scheme between light and dark mode (optional)
Screenshot
Links
- Solution URL: Frontend Mentor solution URL here
- Live Site URL: Live site URL
My process
Built with
- Semantic HTML5 markup
- CSS custom properties
- Flexbox
- CSS Grid
- Mobile-first workflow
- React - JS library
- Chakra-UI - For styles
- Vite - For bundling JavaScript
- Redux - For styles
- ReduxJS-Toolkit - For querying the REST Api
What I learned
- How to manipulate the response from the api to utilise the search and filter function providede on the frontend
Continued development
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- Incorporating Maps to locate the countries
Author
- Website - Juliana Sau
- Frontend Mentor - @JulianaSau
- Twitter - @juliana_sau
Acknowledgments
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