React Countries Info Finder with Color theme switcher

This is a React 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
  • Continued development
  • Useful resources
• Author
• Acknowledgments

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

Links

• Solution URL: https://github.com/techemmy/React-Countries-Finder
• Live Site URL: https://countries-finder-tau.vercel.app/

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Mobile-first workflow
• React - JS library

What I learned

• React Router
• CSS color-scheme and prefers-color-scheme attributes

Useful resources

• React Router Official Documentation - This helped me with understanding how to route multiple pages to create an SPA (Single Page Application)
• MDN Documentation - This helped me with understanding how to use the css color-scheme and prefers-color-scheme attributes
• Smashing Magazine - This assisted me with implementing the dark model toggler without javascript

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @techemmy
• Twitter - @itechemmy

Acknowledgments

• Frontend Mentor - For UI and Project Inspiration