Frontend Mentor - REST Countries API with color theme switcher solution

This is a solution to the REST Countries API with a color theme switcher challenge on Frontend Mentor. Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building real projects.

Table of contents

• Overview
  • The challenge
  • Screenshot
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Continued development
  • 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 Solution
• Live Site URL: Countries List App

My process

Built with

• React
• Chakra UI
• Rest Countries API

What I learned

In this challenge, I learned a lot. Especially working with forms like search input, select input, and I managed to use localStorage to avoid unnecessary requests to an API

Continued development

In the future, I want to improve this app by:

• Input state is persisted after going back from the detail page
• Search countries only in the Region that selected
• Use localStorage to get to the detail page

Useful resources

• React Docs - This is my go-to reference for React APIs
• Chakra UI Docs - This is my go-to reference when styling with Chakra UI
• MDN Web Docs - This is my go-to reference for HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Author

• Website - Personal
• Frontend Mentor - @aroyan
• Twitter - @aroyanbaktis

Acknowledgments

Thanks to these communities that helped me when I get stuck :

• React
• ReactJS Indonesia
• Codingfess