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

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: https://github.com/SyedZawwarAhmed/Rest-Countries-API
• Live Site URL:https://syedzawwarahmed.github.io/Countries-of-the-World/

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• JavaScript

What I learned

While making this project, the most important thing which I learned is the fetch API which is also the foundation of this website.

One other thing which I also learned is the local storage which I used for saving the user preference for theme (light/dark).

Here is the snippet of the fetch API I used in this project

fetch("https://restcountries.eu/rest/v2/all")
  .then((res) => res.json())
  .then((data) => {
    countries = data;
    countries.forEach((country) => {
      main.innerHTML += `<div class="country"><div class="flag-container"><img class="flag" src=${country.flag}></div><div class="country-details"><h2 class="country-name">${country.name}</h2><span><strong>Population: </strong>${country.population}</span><br><span><strong>Region: </strong>${country.region}</span><br><span><strong>Capital: </strong>${country.capital}</span></div></div>`;
    });
  });

Useful resources

• Stack Overflow - As always, when I got stuck, stackoverflow helped me get through.
• w3Schools - In my opinion, this is the best website for documentation with easily understandable code examples.

Author

• Syed Zawwar Ahmed
• Frontend Mentor - @SyedZawwarAhmed
• Github - @SyedZawwarAhmed
• Linkedin - @SyedZawwarAhmed