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
  • Continued development
  • Useful resources
• Author
• Acknowledgments

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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

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Links

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My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• Tailwindcss
• React - JS library
  • React Router - For routing
• Styled Components - For styles
• Countires API - REST Countries API
• axios for fetching data

What I learned

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Continued development

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Useful resources

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Author

• Frontend Mentor - @zakaria

Acknowledgments

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