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
  • Continued development
  • 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 Solution
• Live Site Countries database

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• SCSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• Desktop-first workflow
• React - JS library

What I learned

• I learnt more about class component

Continued development

• Use of react class component instead of functional component.
• Use of rest countries api

Useful resources

• Rest countries api

Author

• LinkedIn - Abdullah Saleeman
• Frontend Mentor - @naijadevgamer
• Twitter - @naijadevgamer