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
  • Continued development
  • 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: Frontend Mentor
• Live Site URL: Hosted on Vercel

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• Tailwind CSS
• CSS Grid
• Mobile-first workflow
• React - JS library
• Next.js - React framework

What I learned

I learned how to use Tailwind CSS, using it in a project for the first time. It is quite easy. The only downside I can think of is it could clutter the classname of an element at times. I also learned how to implement Dark Mode toggling by tapping into user's preferences first then providing an option to switch between light and dark themes.

Continued development

I would like to focus more on server-side-rendering projects, integrating APIs onto frontend and implement more tools like Redux to handle global web application states.

Useful resources

• Tailwind UI Documentation - Helped me setup Tailwind into the project and get me up to speed on how to use.
• Custom 404 Page by Vercel - I found this useful for setting up a custom 404 page.
• Lodash library - Tons of useful utility functions to work with strings, arrays and objects.

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @ianbuen
• GitHub - @ianbuen