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.

• Overview
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• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Continued development
  • Useful resources
• Author
• Acknowledgments

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)

• Solution URL: Solution
• Live Site URL: Live site

• React - JS library
• React Router
• Styled Components - For styles
• Typescript
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Mobile-first workflow

I was able to refresh myself on my knowledge of working with React and hooks. Also, was able to work with Typescript, React Router and styled components libraries.

I was able to know a way to store data in the localstorage to save on making many calls to the server. This saved the user bandwidth and reduced the load to the server.

I was able to learn on how to make a theme toggle for a site.

• Frontend Mentor - @DonMatano
• Twitter - @MMatano5