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
• Description
  • Built with
  • Features
• Author

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

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: *Click*
• Live Site URL: *Click*

Description

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• SCSS Modules
• TypeScript
• React - JS library
• React Router - Routing library
• Suspense API
• Context API
• Intersection Observer API
• Mobile-first workflow

Features

• Color theme switcher (with local storage support)
• Infinite scroll (for homepage country card list)
• Modern React Router with data routes (for loaders to fetch data with the "render-as-you-fetch" approach)
• Search parameters (for storing searched country and region to make the pages bookmarkable)
• Code splitting (with React.lazy() and Suspense API)

Author

• Twitter - @Rock_n_Roll_CRC
• LinkedIn - @rock-n-roll-crc