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
  • Screenshot
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
• Author
• Project Setup

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: Solution on Frontend Mentor
• Live Site URL: Live Site

My process

Built with

• HTML5
• SCSS
• Mobile-first workflow
• VueJS - JS Framework
• JavaScript Fetch

What I learned

I learned how to create pages via dynamic routing in VueJS, using the same component for all routes and how to react to route param changes. I also got to deepen my knowledge of getting Data via an API with JavaScript Fetch.

Author

• Website - Jan-Luca Splettstößer
• Frontend Mentor - @lucaspl3tti
• Github - @lucaspl3tti

Project Setup

npm install

Compile and Hot-Reload for Development

npm run dev

Compile and Minify for Production

npm run build

Lint with ESLint

npm run lint