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
  • 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

• Desktop home-page (dark mode)

• Desktop home-page (light mode)

• Desktop details page (dark mode)

• Desktop details page (light mode)

• Mobile home-page (dark mode)

• Mobile home-page (light mode)

• Mobile details page (dark mode)

• Mobile details page (light mode)

Links

• Live Site URL: Where in the world?

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• Flexbox
• React - JS library
• Styled Components - For styles
• REST COUNTRIES - API

What I learned

This is my first project where I used API to get data and display it on the site. I learned how to use endpoints and parameters according the need of the page. When you try to combine url by using props, don't use "string" + {props.something} + "string" as it won't properly format it as an url. Better example -

let url = new URL(
  String(props.country),
  "https://restcountries.eu/rest/v2/name/"
);
url.searchParams.append("fullText", true);

axios.get(url)

Useful resources

• Search Bar in React Tutorial

Author

• Linkedin - Shashank Gupta
• Frontend Mentor - @Shashank1003