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
  • Structure
  • 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
• Click on the pagination to change pages on the homepage
• Toggle the color scheme between light and dark mode

Screenshot

Structure

Links

• Solution URL: https://github.com/chianglynn/frontendmentor-rest-countries-api-with-color-theme-switcher
• Live Site URL: https://chianglynn.github.io/frontendmentor-rest-countries-api-with-color-theme-switcher/

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• CSS GRID
• Mobile-first workflow
• JavaSrcipt with Model–view–controller(MVC) pattern

Useful resources

• Stack Overflow - Use async await with Array.map - This helped me for getting correct JSON data instead of an array of promises when I tried to rendering border countries from country code to country name in the detail page.
• Stack Overflow - for loop in a javascript class method not working - This helped me to use for loops in a class function.
• web.dev - Building a color scheme - This helped me to manage multiple color schemes in CSS.

Author

• Website - Lynn Chiang's Portfolio
• Blog - Lynn's Self-taught Records
• Frontend Mentor - @chianglynn