Weather-Forecast
What is this repo about?
This repo contains the source code for a web app that displays the weather forecast for any city.
What is the tech-stack?
This web-app was made with React. Redux was used for state management, and Redux-Promise was used as middleware. Axios was used to make API calls.
Where is the weather forecast information collected from?
openweathermap.org has a really good API system in place. This web-app leverages from that.
How do I run this locally on my machine?
- Download or clone this repo.
- Navigate to the project folder and run - npm install.
- To set up the local dev server, run - npm start.
- Open your browser and navigate to the specified localhost.
Where is the API_KEY?
My API_KEY has been excluded from this public repo. You'll need to use your own API_KEY if you want to run this locally. Go to http://openweathermap.org/api , you'll probably have to signup for an account before you get an API key.
Once you have the API_KEY, add the following line of code to WeatherForecast/src/actions/index.js :
const API_KEY = 'YOUR API_KEY GOES HERE'
How do I fetch the weather forecast data for countries other than India?
By default, the web-app will only fetch weather forecast for places in India, if you want to change it then, edit the following line of code in WeatherForecast/src/actions/index.js :
export function fetchWeather (city) {
const url = `${ROOT_URL}&q=${city},[ENTER THE COUNTRY CODE THAT YOU WANT TO FETCH WEATHER FORECAST DATA FROM]`;
...// Rest of the code
}
For example, if you want to change the country to US, then:
const url = `${ROOT_URL}&q=${city},us';
For Germany, that would be :
const url = `${ROOT_URL}&q=${city},ge';
...so on and so forth.
NOTE
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