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
  • Screenshot
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Continued development
  • Useful resources
• Author
• Acknowledgments

Overview

The solution to this challange was created by Spruce

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)

Links

• Solution URL: Solution
• Live Site URL: live site

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Desktop-first workflow
• React - JS library

What I learned

As this is my first reactjs project i can say i learned alot from this project, i learned how to use React proper and got to practice everything i have been learning about react, the fetch api was quite interesting, and i can say I'm not really proud of the codes i write as their was lot of repetition but i do hope to learn how to do this better in my coming react projects...

Continued development

I would still focus on props and state managements in future projects and redux too

Author

• Website - Spruce.com.ng
• Frontend Mentor - @iamspruce
• Twitter - @sprucekhalifa

Acknowledgments

I would love to give a shout out to frontendmentor fro creating this helpful challenges for web devs like me who are looking for amazing projects to work on.