Countries-react-app

Frontend Mentor - REST Countries API with color theme switcher solution

This is a solution to the REST Countries API challenge on Frontend Mentor. Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building realistic projects.

Table of contents

• Overview
  • The challenge
  • Screenshot
• 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

Screenshot

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• Mobile-first workflow
• React - JS library
• CSS modules - For styles
• REST API

What I learned

• create functional and class components in react
• use callbacks to lift up data
• use API to get data
• divide componnents and styles
• use react router
• JSX Syntax

Useful resources

• deploy React App when using React Router - this page helped me why my page after deploy loaded only navigation component, which was out of react router.

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @Monika Cyprys