NodeJS_WeatherApp

This is a CLI weather app built in Node.js which makes use of asynchronous HTTP requests. The application communicates with third party APIs ->Google's geo-location API and dark sky API.

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Asynchronous, non-blocking application => app will continue to run while it waits for someting else to happen

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Google geo location API takes address and returns lattitude and longitude co-ordinates whereas Dark Sky API takes lattitude and longitude co-ordinates as input and generates weather information.

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Dependencies

Third party NPM modules used in this application are

• request -> To make http request
• yargs -> To encode user input[to format the address given as input by user]
• axios -> Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

Run the following commands to save following dependencies

npm install request --save

npm install yargs --save

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For Reference, https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=1301%20lombard%20street%20philadelphia

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To get the live weather data from the latitude and longitude passed, use Dark Sky Weather API, https://darksky.net/dev

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