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
  • 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)

Links

• Solution URL: Solution
• Live Site URL: Live Site

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• Tailwind CSS
• CSS Grid
• DaisyUI for some pre-built Tailwind CSS components
• Mobile-first workflow
• Angular

What I learned

• Developing this project, I learnt how to work with CSS Grid and how to make responsive design with CSS Grid.

• I also worked with Angular for the first time in this project and familiarized myself with the workflow of Angular like how to make a network request and how to go about managing data of the application.

• Also, made sure to keep accessibility in mind while developing the project like keyboad navigation and screen reader accessibility.

• Worked with CSS Variables to control the theme colors.

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @MA040999