frank1003A/rest-countries-api

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
  • Useful resources
• 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>

Useful resources

• upmostyly - The useMediaQuery hook is based on this article. I really liked this pattern and will use it going forward.

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @frank1003A
• Twitter - @FrankEzene