erickeniuk/weather_app

A weather app that returns various information about weather. Backend in Go. Planning to frontend with HTMX and possibly create a Flutter app with it.

To clone, cd to the parent directory of your choice, then run

git clone https://github.com/erickeniuk/weather_app.git

weather_app

A weather app that returns various information about weather. Backend in Go. Simple frontend with HTMX and possibly create a Flutter app with it.

Start the server

Run the gin server with:

cd ./weather_app # <-- Should see router.go here
go run .

To test, open a separate terminal and run curl command:

# Get weather in Chicago
curl "localhost:8080/weather?city=Chicago

You should see some HTML return which if copy-pasted into an .html file would display a web page with your weather data in table format.

Alternatively, run the server and see below:

HTMX Frontend

This weather app's frontend is designed using HTMX. HTMX is an open-source project from bigskysoftware/hmtx @ GitHub .

HTMX offers some nice, fast front-end features without writing a bunch of JS. Nice.

Run your server using go run . and confirm it's successfully running. Then, go to your browser and enter localhost:8080, or whichever port you chose to run on, and you should see:

From there, you can enter the city of your choose and a nice css smooth transition should swap out the search bar with your results.