weat

small real time weather util

this project started as a way to test out Deno and what caught my eye was the compile feature that lets you create a binary depending on your OS with a single command.

this project uses the OpenWeatherMap API to get current weather data based on city names. it uses the 2.5 version that's deprecated. yes, i have left my API key exposed, because i don't care, go nuts.

Pre-requisites

have node and npm installed on your machine

Installation and Setup

install deno and restart your terminal

clone the repo and navigate to the project

git clone https://github.com/thisisrajneel/weat.git
cd weat

install the dependencies
```
npm i
```

compile the code into a binary

deno compile --allow-all main.js

the --allow-all flag give all permissions to the deno runtime

[!NOTE]
alternatively you can use the --allow-net flag only

you will see a binary named weat created inside the project (or weat.exe in case of windows)

For Linux users

move the binary to the bin folder to make it globally accesible

sudo mv weat /bin

Usage

weat

the command by itself will ask for a city as a command line argument

$ weat
enter a city name

weat [city]

outputs the current weather of the city in the terminal in json format

$ weat delhi
{
coord: { lon: 77.2167, lat: 28.6667 },
weather: [ { id: 721, main: "Haze", description: "haze", icon: "50d" } ],
base: "stations",
main: {
  temp: 302.2,
  feels_like: 303,
  temp_min: 302.2,
  temp_max: 302.2,
  pressure: 1012,
  humidity: 51,
  sea_level: 1012,
  grnd_level: 987
},
visibility: 3500,
wind: { speed: 1.54, deg: 260 },
clouds: { all: 20 },
dt: 1728709263,
sys: {
  type: 1,
  id: 9165,
  country: "IN",
  sunrise: 1728694203,
  sunset: 1728735887
},
timezone: 19800,
id: 1273294,
name: "Delhi",
cod: 200
}

Further Scope

adding a how-to for windows users