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

• Frontend Mentor - REST Countries API with color theme switcher solution
  • 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 (optional)

Screenshot

• Country Filter:

Dark Mode	Light Mode

• Country Details:

Dark Mode	Light Mode

Links

• Solution URL
• Live Site URL

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Mobile-first workflow
• Tailwind - CSS framework
• React - JS library

What I learned

• Put React.js knowledge to practice
• Basic ESLint and PostCSS configuration
• Tailwind CSS
• Deployment to Vercel
• Fetching data from an API
• Routing with React Router
• Manual pagination and infinite scrolling
• Custom hooks

Useful resources

• Tailwind Docs - Served as a nice reference to search for specific classes and how to switch between dark and light mode correctly.

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @GPMS