Frontend Mentor - REST Countries API

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

• Project Overview
• Tech Stack and Approach
• Local Development
• Deployment

🌅 Project Overview

Challenge Requirements

• 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)

Status

Features

• Search/filter countries with pagination

Accessibility

• Responsive accross different screen sizes
• Added custom indicator when interactive elements focused

🌠 Tech Stack and Approach

Built with

• HTML5 – Semantic structure
• React – Ease of use, great eco-system
• TailwindCSS – Utility-first CSS for fast development
• TypeScript - Interactivity and application logic
• Vite - Fast development server, production build and easy configuration.

Approach

• Mobile-first workflow for better performance on smaller devices
• Accessibility guided by ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (APG).

🍃 Local Development

Prerequisites

Install the following:

• Git (latest version)
• Node.js (latest LTS recommended)
• pnpm (latest version)

Setup

git clone https://github.com/haquanq-frontendmentor/rest-countries-api.git
cd rest-countries-api
pnpm install

Start Development Server

pnpm dev

🍁 Deployment

Deployed to Github Pages via Github Action.