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REST countries API using REACT

beatrizalmeidapires•255
@beatrizalmeidapires
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This is a solution for...REST Countries API with color theme switcher
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JS
  • API
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Hi everyone!

Had a lot of fun building this project and some struggles, in particular:

  • Setting up the light mode. I could easily change the background color, however when it comes to change the background of some particular elements like buttons that were on different components I couldn't make it. The text "light" and "dark" also just changed once and never changed again.

  • Filtering while typing I had the input in a different component from where I called the API, so it was hard to filter by the user input. I added a button and managed to filter that way but it wasn't supposed to be like that...

  • I still have some bugs, for example if I don't type anything and click on "search" it breaks up the app completely.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

Community feedback

  • Matt Studdert•13,611
    @mattstuddertPosted almost 5 years ago

    Nice work on this challenge, Beatriz! It's great to hear that you had fun building it. Your solution looks really good. As you said, there are a few small bugs in there which would be worth trying to resolve. With the search, you need to use event.preventDefault() to stop the browser refreshing when the form is submitted. You also need to make sure that if no countries are returned that you're at least returning an empty array. This is what's causing the error as .map will only work on an array.

    Keep up the great work!

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    beatrizalmeidapires•255
    @beatrizalmeidapiresPosted almost 5 years ago

    @mattstuddert thank you for the feedback! I appreciate it.

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  • GustavoMartins•245
    @AquelehomemPosted almost 5 years ago

    Em termos de design ta igualzinho, i would recomend you to research for higher order functions like filter/map and the input/keypress/keydown events so that you can "filter" the elements by hiding them when typing or just filter some array with the elements you wanted and do the fetch json when sending the form.

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    beatrizalmeidapires•255
    @beatrizalmeidapiresPosted almost 5 years ago

    @Aquelehomem Thank you! I Will have a look!

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