JT1974/rest-countries

Frontend Mentor challenge - REST Countries API challenge

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
  • Screenshot
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • 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)

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: source code on GitHub
• Live Site URL: you can try it here

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Mobile-first workflow
• React - JS library
• Styled Components - For styles

Continued development

Using Styled Components still causes some frustration, so I have to look into that a bit deeper.

Useful resources

• Talia Marcassa - Styled Components: To Use or Not to Use? - This is a really good article that I found during the debugging one of the issues with Styled Components. It's worth reading.

Author

• Website - Janos Takacs
• Frontend Mentor - @JT1974
• Twitter - @TakacsJanos7