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Submitted about 2 years ago

Mobile first design using Angular

Bryan Sanchez•590
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This is a solution for...REST Countries API with color theme switcher
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JS
  • API
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I had a lot of fun with this one! I took this design up as a challenge to test my Angular skills and I can say that they have definitely improved because of it (although I still prefer React🤣). A few questions did pop up into my mind while working on this challenge:

  1. How do you chain asynchronous calls in an Angular component if it uses a service? My current solution was setting up an async function inside the Angular component and awaiting the responses from the services within them. I found this the most intuitive approach from my readings online but I'd like to know if there's a better way to go about it.

  2. How do you structure an Angular app's file structure if you're doing more complicated projects (e.g. multi-page website, multiple services)? For the page components, I just ended the names with -page to denote that it's a page. For multiple services, I created a services directory and placed each service within its own subdirectory there. Is this good practice or is there a cleaner way to structure files?

Besides this, any and all comments are welcome! Really want to learn as much as I can from each challenge. Cheers🎉

Community feedback

  • Travolgi 🍕•31,400
    @denieldenPosted about 2 years ago

    Hello Bryan, You have done a good work! 😁

    I definitely prefer react too 😁😁

    Some little tips to improve your code:

    • add main tag and wrap the content of page for improve the Accessibility
    • also you can use article tag instead of a simple div to the container card for improve the Accessibility
    • remove all unnecessary code, the less you write the better as well as being clearer: for example the div container of image
    • use ul element for the details text of country instead of multiple p
    • if you want to use the title for the href attribute you have to parse it in url, it can give problems creating links with empty spaces or special characters
    • if I type a query that doesn't give any results, nothing happens and i see infinite "loading...", try adding a "no results" message
    • I would also add a query reset button, I find it very convenient
    • to make all flag images the same height use the object-fit: cover and aspect-ratio: 3/2 properties

    Keep learning how to code with your amazing solutions to challenges.

    Hope this help 😉 and Happy coding!

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    Bryan Sanchez•590
    @0-BSCodePosted about 2 years ago

    @denielden Thank you for the feedback!

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    Travolgi 🍕•31,400
    @denieldenPosted about 2 years ago

    @0-BSCode you are welcome and keep it up

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