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.

REST API Link: https://restcountries.com/

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: Frontend Mentor
• Live Site URL: https://rest-countries-api-eight-amber.vercel.app/

My process

Stack

• React (UI and Components)
• Next.js (Dynamic Routing)
• Tailwind (CSS Framework)

Focus of the Project

• Next.js dynamic routing
• Client-side fetching
• Filtering data using search field
• Filtering data with dropdown menu
• Next.js getStaticProps and getStaticPaths

Author

Ian Wu

• Frontend Mentor - @iannnop
• LinkedIn - @iannnop
• Instagram - @ian.wuu
• Twitter - @iannnop