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
  • Screenshots
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Continued development
  • Useful resources

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)

Screenshots

Links

• Solution URL: Repo
• Live Site URL: Site

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Mobile-first workflow
• React
• React-router
• scss

What I learned

• use switch theme using custom hooks and context to change the used color variables across the whole website.
• use accessibility properties like "aria-expanded","role","aria-haspopup".
• use _redirects to configure routing on hosting platform.
• use SVGR to use SVGs as components for cleaner code.
• use react router to manage routing.
• use custom hooks.
• usage of line clamp to limit the number of lines

Continued development

Useful resources

• react router course 1 - this helped me with understanding the basics of react routing

• react router course 2 - this helped me with newer version of react router