I built this project to strengthen my skills with real-world API integration and dynamic web applications. My motivation was to create something practical and user-focused—an app that delivers meaningful information instantly and provides a smooth, responsive experience.
Through this project, I learned how to work with multiple API endpoints, handle asynchronous requests using fetch() and async/await, manage errors gracefully, manipulate the DOM dynamically, store data persistently with localStorage, and deploy a complete application through GitHub Pages. I also gained experience in structuring JavaScript functions cleanly, designing responsive layouts, and debugging edge cases like missing API data or user typos. I spent a lot more time focusing on proper commenting and labeling of my files with this project. I realized despite spending more time on that, it made the whole project faster and much less of a headache as I could so easily navigate my code and knew where I was at all times.
-Vist "https://bearsanity.github.io/Weather-App/"
-Enter a city name (e.g., “London”) into the search box and click the Search button (or press Enter).
-The current weather for that city will display: temperature, humidity, wind speed, and weather icon.
-Below that, a five-day forecast will appear with one card per day (approximate midday).
-Each search is saved to your search history; you can click past searches to reload them. On mobile, the searches are under the dropdown in the same place to save screen space.
-Click the Clear History button to delete all saved searches.
Project implemented by @bearsanity (bear0826 on Discord)
Weather data provided by OpenWeather
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