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
• Acknowledgments

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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: (https://github.com/Kehinde13/countries)
• Live Site URL: (https://kehinde13.github.io/countries)

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Mobile-first workflow
• React - JS library
• Material ui - For styles

What I learned

• i learned how to use MUI for a real project
• i countinued my learning on how to use API and how to implement it with my project
• i also learned how to use useParams to access the name of each country from the browser address bar

Continued development

I will continue to learn how to use API by creating web apps that uses an API

Author

• Github - Balogun Kehinde
• Frontend Mentor - @Kehinde13
• LinkedIn - Balogun Kehinde

Acknowledgments

i would like to acknowledge tsbsankara on youtube his solution was helpful