A local weather app I have created while going through the intermediate front end development projects at www.freeCodeCamp.org.
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Completed June 7, 2017
The second intermediate front end development project I completed while completing lessons on freeCodeCamp. For this project I retrieved the information displayed from the Dark Sky API. I made the site request for the user's current location to retrieve the current geolocation coordinates and retrieve the relevant local weather with those coordinates using the API. I used the built in CSS flexbox for this app instead of BootStrap to try out something new (see my flexbox notes in the project files). A button to switch between Celsius and Fahrenheit is also included.
Originally I was going to use the OpenWeatherMap API in order to complete this project, however, after setting up all the JavaScript for the API and having everything working I was not satisfied with the accuracy of the weather I was getting. So, I settled with using the Dark Sky API to retrieve weather information. Dark Sky while not having as many currently included weather conditions and various ids or icons for the included weather conditions, I found to be more reliable. I also like the fact that you can view how many API calls you are using, while I did not see an easy way to view that on OpenWeatherMap. In-the-end I really could have used either API, but in switching I did learn better techniques for pulling information from the API.
