weather_forecast_api_service

Weather Forecast API Service

A weather forecast application which can interact with the weather api and show a weather forecast for a particular city. The application would allow the users to login, select a country and city from the list and extract forecast information for a particular date range. It also allows the app maintainers to perform analytics and display top n users who have access forecast service and most commonly queried city and country.

This application has a dependency on SQL Lite. To set this application in your local machine, follow the instructures

1. Create a new virtual environment

python3 -m venv venv

2. Activate virtual environment

source venv/bin/activate

3. Pip install all the requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Run the application

FLASK_RUN_PORT=5900 flask run

5. Invoke http://127.0.0.1:5900/ on chrome to verify the launch.

Frontend

1. Traverse to frontend folder.
2. Run npm start or yarn start.

Note- Database should be connected for the APIs to work.

Scope for future improvement

1. Adding flask-login as a dependency to track sessions of users and add their analytics on the basis of time spent on app.
2. Adding Next-Day forecast data to frontend.
3. Unit and integration testing.