Description

A weather forecast app written in JavaScript using NodeJS, express.js

third party apis:

Darksky.net -- for address geocode finding by word Mapbox.com -- for getting weather data for query location

Prerequisites

• nodejs installed
• npm installed

Setup

cd node-weather-app
npm install

Configure:

Put your tokens for mapbox api and darksky api in config/dev.env

Example:

MAPBOX_TOKEN=l12k3j4ljLKJDh2l3kh4j
DARKSKY_TOKEN=KJDHSFLKJlkj3hkj3hlkJLD

don't have tokens?

Get them for free with non payed subscription form these services accordingly: Darksky.net -- for address geocode finding by word Mapbox.com -- for getting weather data for query location

Run production mode on local machine

export PORT=3000 # if run on your local. on heroku this var is set already for you
export MAPBOX_TOKEN=put-your-token-here
export DARKSKY_TOKEN=put-your-token-here
npm run

Run production mode on heroku

When pushed your app to heroku repository, you need to set environment varibales using heroku config More info here

Example:

heroku config:set MAPBOX_TOKEN=l12k3j4ljLKJDh2l3kh4j 
DARKSKY_TOKEN=KJDHSFLKJlkj3hkj3hlkJLD

Run develop mode

• Change port number on which you want server to run in config/dev.env
• Also set your tokens for MAPBOX_TOKEN and DARKSKY_TOKEN in config/dev.env

npm run dev