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.

Overview

My process

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

Toggle the color scheme between light and dark mode (optional)

Links

Solution URL: url

Live Site URL: url

My process

Built with

Semantic HTML5 markup

CSS custom properties

Flexbox

CSS Grid

CSS Keyframes

Mobile-first workflow

React - JS library

Next.js - React framework

Framer-motion - React Library

What I learned

I mirrored Chakra UI's SimpleGrid component to create the SimpleGrid Component. I could easily have used a flexbox but I wanted a customizable component.

SimpleGrid Component:

<SimpleGrid row={5} column={2} columnGap={10} rowGap={5}> // Component character data here </SimpleGrid>