nevenduranec/world-countries

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
  • What I learned
• 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 - Github
• Live Site URL

My process

Built with

• CSS vars
• Min/max for font size (min(max(20px, 4vw), 22px);)
• PostCSS - postcss-nested, postcss-pxtorem, autoprefixer
• Inline SVG icons from Font Awesome
• Nuxt - The Intuitive Vue Framework
• Color mode - for color mode switching

What I learned

Animating text decoration with CSS Houdini

@property --offset {
    syntax: '<length>';
    inherits: false;
    initial-value: 0;
}

Find out more about this on the CSS in Real Life blog post

Author

• Website - Neven Đuranec
• Frontend Mentor - @nevenduranec
• Twitter - @nevenduranec