README.md

Weather app

Welcome! 👋

WORK IN PROGRESS!!!

This is a solution to the Weather app challenge on devchallenges.io.

🔗 Live Link / Demo Link:

• https://alapina.github.io/Weather-app-Challenge/

🛠 Technologies Used:

• 💅 Styled components
• React hooks (useState , useEffect)
• Api requests with axios
• GitHub action for automatically deploying the project to GitHub pages.
• Testing with Jest and Cypress

Additional

• Styled components

  • css color variables (themes) https://styled-components.com/docs/advanced#theming
  • global styles https://scalablecss.com/styled-components-global-styles/
  • styled-normalize https://github.com/sergeysova/styled-normalize

• react-icons

  • library with icons https://react-icons.github.io/react-icons
  • npm https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-icons

• toLocaleString() to define current date

• Dealing with long word in text box:

  • https://justmarkup.com/articles/2015-07-31-dealing-with-long-words-in-css/
  • Location text can be long, so I added width in % to textbox and overflow-wrap: break-word;

• User Location

  • We can find user location by Geolocation API and IP address.
  • On Weather Info we find location by IP address, but on find current location button we will use Geo API
  • https://blog.logrocket.com/detect-location-and-local-timezone-of-users-in-javascript-3d9523c011b9/
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation_API

• Weather API

  • https://openweathermap.org/
  • https://openweathermap.org/api/one-call-api
  • icons https://openweathermap.org/weather-conditions#How-to-get-icon-URL

• How to save API key secretly

  • https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/08/working-with-environment-variables-in-node-js.html
  • https://www.npmjs.com/package/dotenv
  • But with create react app it's easy https://create-react-app.dev/docs/adding-custom-environment-variables/
  • https://create-react-app.dev/docs/adding-custom-environment-variables/#adding-development-environment-variables-in-env