rest-countries_api

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

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: https://github.com/tushar885/rest-countries-api_app
• Live Site URL: https://tushar885.github.io/rest-countries-api_app/

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Bootstrap
• Laptop-first workflow
• Vanilla JavaScript**

What I learned

• How to handle data coming form an API
• Connecting two html pages and sharing data between them through query string
• About window.loaction object
• Adding Loader to the page

Continued development

The app is fully responsive but it has no theme switch as of now, will be adding it sometime.

Useful resources

• MDN
• Stack overflow

Author

• Github - @tushar885
• Twitter - @tushars_85