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 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: Solution URL
• Live Site URL: Live site URL

My process

Built with

• HTML5
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Mobile-first workflow
• Angular - Angular
• TailwindCSS - A utility-first CSS framework
• Restcountries Api - Get information about countries via a RESTful API

What I learned

Through this project I attained a better understanding of RxJs and Observables, Using TailwindCSS with Angular, troubleshooting errors and thinking programmatically - I was able to use memoization to cache http responses from the Restcountries api using the shareReplay RxJS operator amongst many other valuable things.

Useful resources

• How To Create a Caching Service for Angular
• How to implement an Angular search filter in Angular 11 and 12
• Reloading Components when change in Route Params — Angular
• FortAwesome/angular-fontawesome

Author

• Website - Edori Atiri
• Frontend Mentor - @EdoriAtiri
• Twitter - @Reuben_iri

Acknowledgments

Grateful to Frontend Mentor for making this awesome challenge available for nothing.