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
  • Continued development
  • Useful resources
• Author
• Acknowledgments

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)

⚠️ NOTE ⚠️: Sometimes the REST Countries API can go down.

Screenshot

Links

• Source Code
• Live Demo

My process

Built with

• React
• React Router
• TanStack Query
• Styled Components

What I learned

useState helps with making our website or app look different when things change, while useRef helps us remember things without making any big changes.

Continued development

• useContext
• Caching with TanStack Query
• Styled Components

Useful resources

• Package Docs
• MDN Web docs
• Frontend mentor solutions

Author

• Website - Richy
• Frontend Mentor - @ikennarichard
• Twitter - @ikennarichard_

Acknowledgments

Big ups to this wonderful people for their unwavering support,

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