xsrpm / rest-countries

Web de consulta de información de países usando una api externa. React, Wouter, CSS Modules

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

• Frontend Mentor - REST Countries API with color theme switcher solution
  • Table of contents
  • Overview
    • The challenge
    • Screenshot
    • Links
  • My process
    • Built with
    • What I learned
    • Useful resources
  • Author

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

• Solution URL
• Live Site URL

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Mobile-first workflow
• React
• Wouter
• CSS Modules

What I learned

• CSS Modules
• useLocalStorage
• Wouter
• Dark/Light style theme
• Deploy routed app to github pages / hash routing

Useful resources

• CSS Modules
• CSS Modules with React Scripts - CSS modules with React Scripts
• https://css-tricks.com/css-modules-part-1-need/
• https://github.com/gajus/react-css-modules
• https://github.com/molefrog/wouter
• https://blog.logrocket.com/an-introduction-to-wouter-a-react-router-alternative/
• https://restcountries.com/
• https://usehooks.com/useLocalStorage/
• https://create-react-app.dev/docs/deployment/#github-pages
• https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/deploy-a-react-app-to-github-pages/
• https://github.com/molefrog/wouter#customizing-the-location-hook

Author

• Website - César Palma (XsrPm)
• Frontend Mentor - @xsrpm
• Twitter - @xsrpma