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
  • Screenshot
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • 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)

Screenshot

Links

• Live Site URL: http://countries-frontend-mentor.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/

My Process

I wrote an article on linked in about some of the blockers and how I went about solving them. Check it out here!

Built with

• Gatsby
• React - JS library
• MUI
• Mobile-first workflow

Useful resources

• The Quest for the Perfect Dark Mode
  • This article helped me understand how to inject a script into my static HTML on build
• How to Code a Dark Theme with Material UI
  • This is an amazing article which helped me lift up the theme state to a useContext and inject it at the root of my Gatsby app

Author

• Website - Kirill Tchentsov
• Frontend Mentor - @Kirill-develops
• GitHub - @Kirill-develops