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
• Toggle the color scheme between light and dark mode

Screenshot

Links

• Live Site URL: Where in the world?

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Mobile-first workflow
• React - JS library
• React Query - Caching
• Axios - HTTP Client
• Storybook - For build components
• Styled Components - For styles

What I learned

• Make AJAX requests
• Manage client-side caching
• Build filter and search components
• Control pagination of large amount of data
• Build components with Storybook
• Use Context API to manage global states

Useful resources

• Storybook Code Evolution Tutorial - Helped me understand the steps of building isolated components. I really liked Storybook and will use it going forward.
• React Query Code Evolution Tutorial - This is an amazing tutorial which helped me finally understand fetching and caching.

Author

• E-mail: atolini@live.com