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
  • 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)

My Solution Screenshot

Links

• Live site here
• Frontend Mentor solution here

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• React - JS library
• REST Countries - API

Useful resources

• Font Awesome - I really liked this website to get some icons and will use it going forward.

• W3Schools - It's very useful. I'd recommend it to anyone still learning about programming.

• Frontend Mentor - This website is really useful to put your frontend skills to test and practices. It also give you some resources to begin a challenge like this one.

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @GleXan14