Weather Journal App

Project 3 - Weather Journal App (Front End Developer Udacity Nanodegree)

Technology used: HTML, CSS, Javascript (Vanilla)

Project Objective

This project is about working with Web APIs and asynchronous code, creating a web app that uses OpenWeatherMap API to get weather based on user's location, and dynamically update UI.

Setup

To get the project up and running follow the steps below:

1. To set up project environment, make sure that the Node and packages (express, cors and body-parser) installed, and which are used to create the server.

2. After that to start your server, run the command node server.js in your terminal

Development Strategy

• Setting up project environment, making sure Node and packages installed, and included in server.js file.
• Added POST and GET routes to ensure correct retrieval of data from the server.
• Acquired API credentials from OpenWeatherMap website.
• Created async functions to fetch weather data and store it on my local server.
• Set up a function that updated UI dynamically.

Final Output