REST Countries API with color theme switcher

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  Adarsh•1,640

  @adram3l3chPosted over 2 years ago

  Hi Catherine you did a great job :) . You can sort out the border issue by making the border as a component itself and fetch about that country on that component. Also the problem of github pages with SPAs can be solved by using something like

  (function(l) {
          if (l.search[1] === '/' ) {
            var decoded = l.search.slice(1).split('&').map(function(s) { 
              return s.replace(/~and~/g, '&')
            }).join('?');
            window.history.replaceState(null, null,
                l.pathname.slice(0, -1) + decoded + l.hash
            );
          }
        }(window.location))
  

  You can refer about the same here

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  👾 Ekaterine Mitagvaria 👾•7,600

  @catherineisonlinePosted over 2 years ago

  @adram3l3ch Thank you

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  Muhammad Fadll•320

  @fadelunPosted over 2 years ago

  i have seen your website, but when dark mode some color it doesn't change. maybe you can check on style.css, there is ".region-list option"

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  👾 Ekaterine Mitagvaria 👾•7,600

  @catherineisonlinePosted over 2 years ago

  @fadelun Haven't noticed before, thanks for the feedback!

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  Travolgi 🍕•31,400

  @denieldenPosted over 2 years ago

  Hey Catherine, congratulations on completing the challenge! You did a great job 😉

  Let me give you some little tips for optimizing your code:

  • add header tag ad wrap the nav to improve the Accessibility
  • with main tag wrap the content of page
  • add descriptive text in the alt attribute of the images
  • remove all unnecessary code, the less you write the better as well as being clearer: for example the div container of flag images and styling directly the img element
  • 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, try adding a "no results" message
  • I would also add a query reset button, I find it very convenient
  • in the filters there is no way to return to all countries after choosing a region, add an entry "all region"
  • in the region filter after clicking on a region the submenu does not close
  • instead of using px use relative units of measurement like rem -> read here
  • to fetch data from API create and use a custom hook so you can reuse the same code in many different components and keep the logic separate from the design

  Hope this help! Happy coding 😁

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  👾 Ekaterine Mitagvaria 👾•7,600

  @catherineisonlinePosted over 2 years ago

  @denielden Thanks for the feedback

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  Christopher Adolphe•600

  @christopher-adolphePosted over 2 years ago

  Hi @catherineisonline,

  You did a great job in completing this challenge using React. 👍

  • For your issue to display the border countries, I suggest you build a list of countries with their respective alpha codes on the initial load since you are already fetching all the countries. Something like this:

  const countryCodes: [
    {
      name: 'Albania',
      alpha2Code: 'AL',
      alpha3Code: 'ALB'
    },
    {
      name: 'Algeria',
      alpha2Code: 'DZ',
      alpha3Code: 'DZA'
    }
  ]
  

  Then you could store this list in a global state using React's context API and when a user goes to the country page you can find the country codes from this countryCodes list and map them to their respective full name.

  • It might also be a good thing to wrap asynchronous logics in a try...catch block to catch any potential errors.

  I hope this helps.

  Keep it up.

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  👾 Ekaterine Mitagvaria 👾•7,600

  @catherineisonlinePosted over 2 years ago

  @christopher-adolphe Thanks, I will take a look

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  Christopher Adolphe•600

  @christopher-adolphePosted over 2 years ago

  Hi @catherineisonline, 👋

  I'm happy to help and glad to see that this was helpful to you. 👍

  I don't know if you had the chance to give it a try but here's what I had in mind when suggesting this.

  • Create a new context directory under your src directory
  • Create a CountriesContext.js file inside this new directory with the following content:

  import { createContext, useState } from  'react';
  
  // Creating a context which will be accessible to
  // the components of the React app. Here the context
  // is an object with 2 keys; `onBuildCountryCodes` and
  // `onGetCountryNames`, which are functions to build the
  // country codes list and to get the country names list
  const CountriesContext = createContext({
    onBuildCountryCodes: (countries) => {},
    onGetCountryNames: (borders) => {}
  });
  
  // This `CountriesContextProvider` will be use as a
  // wrapper component to provide the context to the
  // entire React app
  export function CountriesContextProvider({ children }) {
    const [ countryCodes, setCountryCodes ] = useState([]);
    
    // The `buildCountryCodesHandler` function contains the logic
    // to build the countryCodes list from a list of countries
    const buildCountryCodesHandler = (countries) => {
      countries.forEach(country => {
        const { name, alpha2Code, alpha3Code } = country;
        
        setCountryCodes(prevState => [
          ...prevState,
          { name, alpha2Code, alpha3Code }
        ]);
      });
    };
    
    // The `getCountryNamesHandler` function contains the logic
    // to return a list of country name from a list of country
    // border codes
    const getCountryNamesHandler = (borders) => {
      return countryCodes.map(country => borders.includes(country.alpha3Code) ? country.name : null);
    };
    
    // Defining a `contextValue` object that matches the structure
    // of the `CountriesContext` context and passing the handler
    // functions as value to it's keys. We will then pass it to the
    // `value` prop of the `<CountriesContext.Provider>` component
    const contextValue = {
      onBuildCountryCodes: buildCountryCodesHandler,
      onGetCountryNames: getCountryNamesHandler
    };
  
    return (
      <CountriesContext.Provider value={ contextValue }>
        { children }
      </CountriesContext.Provider>
    );
  }
  
  export default CountriesContext;
  

  • Wrap your root component inside index.js with the <CountriesContextProvider> component like this:

  // all your other imports
  import CountriesContextProvider from './context/CountriesContext';
  
  root.render(
    <React.StrictMode>
      <CountriesContextProvider> {/* Wrapping starts here */}
        <BrowserRouter basename={process.env.PUBLIC_URL}>
          <div className="mainContainer">
            <Header />
              <Routes>
                <Route exact path="/:name" element={<Country />} />
                <Route path="*" element={<Error />} />
                <Route path="/" exact element={<Countries />} />
              </Routes>
            </div>
        </BrowserRouter>
      </CountriesContextProvider> {/* Wrapping ends here */}
    </React.StrictMode>
  );
  

  • You can now access this context in your <Countries /> component using the useContext hook like this:

  import { useState, useEffect, useContext } from 'react';
  import { CountriesContext } from '../context/CountriesContext';
  
  export default function Countries()  {
    // ...
    // Getting the `onBuildCountryCodes` function from the context
    const { onBuildCountryCodes } = useContext(CountriesContext);
  
    const fetchCountries = async () => {
      try {
        setIsLoading(true);
        const response = await fetch(url);
        const data = await response.json();
        setCountries(data);
        // Passing the list of countries fetched from the API to
        // the `onBuildCountryCodes` function to build the `countryCodes` list
        onBuildCountryCodes(data);
      } catch (error) {
        console.log(error);
      } finally {
        setIsLoading(false);
      }
    };
  
    // ...
  }
  

  • Then access the context in your <Country /> component to get the names of the border countries like this:

  import { useState, useEffect, useContext } from 'react';
  import { CountriesContext } from  '../context/CountriesContext';
  
  export default function Country()  {
    // ...
    const [borderGroup, setCountryBorders] = useState([]);
  
    // Getting the `onGetCountryNames` function from the context
    const { onGetCountryNames } = useContext(CountriesContext);
    
    useEffect(() => {
      const fetchCountryData = async () => {
        try {
          setIsLoading(true);
          const url = `https://restcountries.com/v2/name/${name}`;
          const response = await fetch(url);
          const data = await response.json();
          setCountry(data);
          // Passing the borders list to the `onGetCountryNames` function to
          // get the full name of the border countries and using `setCountryBorders`
          // to set the `borderGroup` state
          setCountryBorders(onGetCountryNames(data[0].borders));
        } catch (error) {
          console.log(error);
        } finally {
          setIsLoading(false);
        }
      };
      
      fetchCountryData();
    }, [name, borderGroup]);
    
    // ...
  }
  

  Let me know if that worked for you.

  Sorry, 😔 this markdown editor doesn't render comments in code snippets nicely. Maybe you could paste them in your code editor for better readability. 🙂

  Best regards.

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  Javier Eufracio•280

  @Javieer57Posted 11 months ago

  Hi!

  I found a bug in the neighboring countries' tags. When you click on one, it adds the neighboring countries of the current one to the neighboring countries from the previous screen. Excellent job! :)

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  👾 Ekaterine Mitagvaria 👾•7,600

  @catherineisonlinePosted 9 months ago

  @Javieer57 Hi, thanks for the feedback. I have fixed this issue and it should be working properly now. Thank you

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  Kiyoomi•480

  @JukiyoomiPosted over 2 years ago

  I think you can get data of a country using its code with this link https://restcountries.com/v3.1/alpha/{code} from the api.

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  👾 Ekaterine Mitagvaria 👾•7,600

  @catherineisonlinePosted over 2 years ago

  @Jukiyoomi Thank you

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  qadzek•540

  @qadzekPosted 10 months ago

  Nice work. I like how you have implemented the "Filter by Region" menu.

  A couple of small remarks:

  • I can confirm the bug described by @Javieer57.
  • The use of any in TS is discouraged.
  • There are tools online to automatically convert a JSON response to TS types: https://app.quicktype.io
  • I don't think there is a need for separate FilteredCountries and AllCountries components.
  • A single API call should suffice.

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  👾 Ekaterine Mitagvaria 👾•7,600

  @catherineisonlinePosted 9 months ago

  @qadzek I have fixed this issue with borders and it should be working properly now. Thanks for the feedback I will get back to the other suggestions later on

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  Abdul•8,540

  @SamadeenPosted about 2 years ago

  Hello Catherine... You did beautifully well on this project, can you kindly recommend resources to learn React

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  👾 Ekaterine Mitagvaria 👾•7,600

  @catherineisonlinePosted about 2 years ago

  @Samadeen Hi, thanks! I started learning by practicing and never really read docs, so if you understand JavaScript it makes React much easier. I started reading much later to understand some concepts better but the internet is full of useless information. I recommend starting with official docs: https://reactjs.org/docs/getting-started.html

  It's not very hard to understand but if they have some topics not clear enough, you can google and try to find some more info.

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  Abdul•8,540

  @SamadeenPosted about 2 years ago

  @catherineisonline Thank you. I appreciate

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  👾 Ekaterine Mitagvaria 👾•7,600

  @catherineisonlinePosted about 2 years ago

  @Samadeen No worries, I hope that helps

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  Anthony Rosman•510

  @D3press3ddPosted over 2 years ago

  wow, you've grown quite a bit in the area, keep it up, check out this tool for animations https://www.framer.com/motion/ you can see what you can do in my solution to this challenge, it is really intuitive you can check this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_95SPKE6vg and see how it works in just 5 minutes

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  👾 Ekaterine Mitagvaria 👾•7,600

  @catherineisonlinePosted over 2 years ago

  @D3press3dd Thank you! Wow, this looks awesome!

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  Benjamin Thorpe•280

  @sparrowslPosted over 2 years ago

  This is just too amazing, makes me want to do it now. I have no words to say here :)

  I only found that the spacing on the right side is not consistent with the left (on desktop) Everything else if just fire and amazing

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  👾 Ekaterine Mitagvaria 👾•7,600

  @catherineisonlinePosted over 2 years ago

  @benjithorpe I will check it out, still have to finish off the mobile version. Thanks for the feedback!

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  Zein•360

  @Zein-MBPosted over 2 years ago

  Amazing! you're just an example of success!!

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  👾 Ekaterine Mitagvaria 👾•7,600

  @catherineisonlinePosted over 2 years ago

  @Zein-MB Thanks! ;D

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  Valeri•190

  @Valeri85Posted over 2 years ago

  Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'value') Search.js:21 e = e.value;

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  👾 Ekaterine Mitagvaria 👾•7,600

  @catherineisonlinePosted over 2 years ago

  @Valeri85 I will check it, thanks

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  Vicky Sangwan•100

  @vickydarlinnPosted over 2 years ago

  after a long time.....But Amazing🔥

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  👾 Ekaterine Mitagvaria 👾•7,600

  @catherineisonlinePosted over 2 years ago

  @vickydarlinn Thanks!

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