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
  • Screenshot
  • Links
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Continued development
  • Useful resources

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)

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: Front End Mentor
• Live Site URL: Site Link

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• Mobile-first workflow
• Material-UI
• React - JS library

What I learned

By doing this project i was able to apply the theory i was learning. Such as React Hooks, Context Api, Custom Hooks.

Useful resources

• Css Box Shadow - This helped me for Box Shadow. Will use it going forward.