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
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • 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)

Links

• Solution URL: Github Repository
• Live Site URL: Vercel

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• Tailwindcss
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Mobile-first workflow (Well I forgot this but tailwind saved me :>)
• Next.js - React framework

What I learned

Using react-query was quite a challenge. specially in Next.js because I needed to somehow manage using Server Components and Client Components. thankfully react-query already has a solution for this. I'm not sure though if this is a good use if you need to load a long list like I did here in home page.
I also used shadcn/ui for some ui components like dropdown and select which saved some time. althogh required some theming.
I learned about next-theme package which provides theme context and saves a lot of time.

Useful resources

• React Query
• shadcn/ui

Author

• Website - Pourya Pourbagheri
• Frontend Mentor - @pouryapb
• Linkedin - @pouryapb