Frontend Mentor - Weather App Solution

This is a solution to the Weather app challenge on Frontend Mentor. Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building realistic projects.

Table of Contents

• Project Overview
• Tech Stack and Approach
• Local Development
• Deployment

🌅 Project Overview

Challenge Requirements

• Search for weather information by entering a location in the search bar
• View current weather conditions including temperature, weather icon, and location details
• See additional weather metrics like "feels like" temperature, humidity percentage, wind speed, and precipitation amounts
• Browse a 7-day weather forecast with daily high/low temperatures and weather icons
• View an hourly forecast showing temperature changes throughout the day
• Switch between different days of the week using the day selector in the hourly forecast section
• Toggle between Imperial and Metric measurement units via the units dropdown
• Switch between specific temperature units (Celsius and Fahrenheit) and measurement units for wind speed (km/h and mph) and precipitation (millimeters) via the units dropdown
• View the optimal layout for the interface depending on their device's screen size
• See hover and focus states for all interactive elements on the page

Status

Features

• Search for locations with real-time suggestions
• Change unit systems (imperial, metric)

Accessibility

• Responsive accross different screen sizes
• Added custom indicator when interactive elements focused

🌠 Tech Stack and Approach

Built with

• OpenMeteoAPI - Public API for weather forecast data
• HTML5 – Semantic structure
• Vue – Fine-grained reactivity
• PrimeVue – Matured component UI with accessibility in mind
• TailwindCSS – Utility-first CSS for fast development
• TypeScript - Interactivity and application logic
• Vite - Fast development server, production build and easy configuration.

Approach

• Mobile-first workflow for better performance on smaller devices
• Accessibility guided by ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (APG).

🍃 Local Development

Prerequisites

Install the following:

• Git (latest version)
• Node.js (latest LTS recommended)
• pnpm (latest version)

Setup

git clone https://github.com/haquanq-frontendmentor/weather-app.git
cd weather-app
pnpm install

Start Development Server

pnpm dev

🍁 Deployment

Deployed to Github Pages via Github Action.