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
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Continued development
• 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

Links

• Solution URL: Solution on github
• Live Site URL: Country picker

My process

Built with

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

What I learned

I learned how to use the useContext hook to be able to initialize and access the countries array from other modules.

Continued development

Some of my css is still a bit wonky. For example, the desktop country detail page doesn't maintain proper balance between the flag and info when I expand or contract the window. There are also a few bits of css that I don't really understand. ChatGPT made suggestions and I implemented some of them, but there were one or two that I didn't understand.

Author

• Website - Cris Crawford
• Frontend Mentor - @cmcrawford2

Acknowledgments

ChatGPT 3.5 was very helpful.