Weather-app--CTD

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Overview

Weather app developed looking for improving my skills in JavaScript programming using asynchronous functions.

The page is integrated with the OpenWeather API which provides the weather information.

Status: Concluded

• Deadline: 03.07.23 ✅

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Objectives

Users should be able to:

• View the optimal layout for the site depending on their device's screen size ✅
• Receive weather information about the searched city ✅
• Receive an error message when the input is submitted if:
  • The input field is empty ✅
  • The app doesn't find any information about the city informed ✅

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• Mobile-first workflow
• CSS custom properties
• CSS-grid
• Flexbox
• JavaScript

What I learned 💡

This project was really useful to provide and strengthen the necessary basis for how to get and use data provided by a third API.

Data about temperature and weather conditions were provided by OpenWeather API, and the country's flag image was provided by Country Flags API.

Different from my previous project using API, this time, if the user put in an invalid city, what impossibility the request successful, a message related to error 404 will be shown. I also set a "Searching" message to be shown while the request is processing.

const showWeatherInfo = async (city) => {
  const loadingMsg = document.querySelector(".searching-msg");

  loadingMsg.classList.remove("hide");
  title.classList.add("hide");
  mainCard.classList.add("hide");
  moreInfo.classList.add("hide");
  errorMsg.classList.add("hide");

  const data = await getWeatherInfo(city);

  if (data.cod === "404") {
    errorMsg.classList.remove("hide");
    loadingMsg.classList.add("hide");

    title.classList.add("hide");
    mainCard.classList.add("hide");
    moreInfo.classList.add("hide");
  }

During the development of this page, I could work with CSS Grid Layout, and improve my knowledge about display grid properties: grid-template-rows, grid-template-columns, grid-template-areas, grid-area.

.header-mobile--open {
    display: grid;
    grid-template-columns: auto auto;
    grid-template-rows: auto auto;
    grid-template-areas: 
    "logo search-icon"
    "input input";
    row-gap: .75em;
    width: 100%;
    box-sizing: border-box;
}

.logo-mobile--open {
    grid-area: logo;
}

I learned to use the selector ::before, and so deal with background properties without interfering with the properties of main elements.

.title::before {
    content: "";
    position: absolute;
    inset: 0;
    background: var(--bg-color);
    background-size: cover;
    background-position: center;
    border-radius: 10px;
    z-index: -1;
    opacity: .5;
}

🛠️ Continued development

The next steps will be focused on coding refactoring.

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Useful resources

• CSS-Tricks Guides - Useful guides to learn and consult about CSS custom properties.
• Como aplicar opacidade em background-image sem afetar textos - This is an amazing and easy-understanding article that helped me to set background image opacity correctly without interfering with other elements' properties.