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
Overview
The challenge
Users should be able to:
- See all countries from the API on the homepage
- Search for a country using an
input
field - 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
My process
Built with
What I learned
useState
helps with making our website or app look different when things change, while useRef
helps us remember things without making any big changes.
Continued development
- useContext
- Caching with TanStack Query
- Styled Components
Useful resources
- Package Docs
- MDN Web docs
- Frontend mentor solutions
Author
- Website - Richy
- Frontend Mentor - @ikennarichard
- Twitter - @ikennarichard_
Acknowledgments
Big ups to this wonderful people for their unwavering support,