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.

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

Screenshots

Desktop Layout

Mobile Layout

Links

• Solution URL: Front-end Mentor
• Live Site URL: Vercel

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Desktop-first workflow
• React - JS library
• React Query - React library to make HTTP requests
• React Router DOM - React library to make different routes in the application
• React Select - React library to make custom select input
• Framer Motion - Animations library
• Styled Components - For styles
• Font Awesome - Icon library

What I learned

I learned how to use react query to make HTTP requests (which is much more simple than making requests manually), and used react select for the first time to use a custom select input.

To see how you can add code snippets, see below:

function getAllCountries() {
  return useQuery('getAllCountries', async () => {
    return await fetch(`https://restcountries.com/v3.1/all`).then(data =>
      data.json()
    )
  })
}

const { data, isLoading } = getAllCountries()

Useful resources

• MDN Web Docs
• DevDocs API Documentation

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @emanuelm45
• LinkedIn - Emanuel Marques