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
  • 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)

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: frontendmentor
• Live Site URL: ei-countries.netlify.app

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Desktop-first workflow
• TailwindCSS - For styles
• RxJs - For state management and data fetching
• Angular - Frontend framework

What I learned

I learnt a lot of things about RxJs and Angular.

Useful resources

• Filling a box with an image - This allowed me to make the country flag fill the parent div. It enables consistent sizing of images despite the variations in the actual sizes of the different images. I really liked this pattern and will use it going forward.

Author

• Website - Ediongsenyene
• Frontend Mentor - @IEdiong
• Twitter - @IEdiong

Acknowledgments

Credits to Deborah Kurata for her wonderful course RxJS in Angular: Reactive Development.