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
  • Screenshots
  • 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)

Screenshots

Homepage on light and dark mode

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Search on light and dark mode

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The details page when a country is clicked to see more info about it

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Links

• Solution URL: https://github.com/Willwf/rest-countries-api
• Live Site URL: https://rest-countries-api-willwf.vercel.app/

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• Flexbox
• Mobile-first workflow
• React - JS library
• Styled Components - For styles
• Vite.js - Bundler JS
• React Router - Component for Client Side Routing
• React Query - Hooks for fetching, caching and updating asynchronous data in React
• Mantine - React components Library
• Ionicons - Open source icons

What I learned

This was a challenging experience because I was able to use many new techniques that I hadn't used before. I tried to always use something new to solve a problem or to accomplish a task in a different way than I had before. Only to feel challenged and expand my knowledge. Even while doing simple things that I previously took for granted, I sometimes got stuck for hours before discovering that just one line of code would solve the problem. It's always interesting to use new techniques in programming.

Continued development

I feel the need to learn more things but I'm still not sure of where to go. What I want for my next project is to use Typescript, but the rest is unclear to me. I guess I should just keep going.

Useful resources

• ChatGPT - This helped me to discover and use a lot of things that I was not used to. Even when I got some wrong responses or out of date information, I was able to extract something that helped me to finish or advance in a feature. It's an amazing tool for a student when used well.
• Stack Overflown - Like always, I could not have got this far without it.

Author

• Github - William Firmino
• Frontend Mentor - @Willwf
• Twitter - @Williamwf
• LinkedIn - William Firmino