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

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

• Live Site URL: country-web-app

My process

Built with

• Next.js - React framework
• Tailwind - For styles
• PnPm - disk space efficient package manager
• Cypress - easily create tests for your modern web applications

What I learned

• How to implement tests on the front-end using Cypress
  • Cypress end to end testing basics
  • Cypress testing syntax

describe("My First Test", () => {
    beforeEach(() => { cy.visit("http://localhost:3000/"); });

    it("Finds a search bar", ()
    => { cy.get("input"); });
})

Continued development

What I want to continue learning:

• Adding different tests to my project

Useful resources

• cypress.io/guides/end-to-end-testing/writing-your-first-end-to-end-test - Helped me get started with end to end testing in cypress
• Example resource 2 - This is an amazing article which helped me finally understand XYZ. I'd recommend it to anyone still learning this concept.

Author

• Website - Portfolio
• Frontend Mentor - @Clue355
• Twitter - LinkedIn