Weather app is a micro site developed for the charlie challenge, from Hurb.
The idea is that you can see the weather from any location, just typing it or allowing to show your current position.
Dependencies
This project will need Docker or node!
Steps with docker
docker-compose builddocker-compose upSteps with n 8301 ode
npm installnpm run servedocker-compose buildnpm run test:unit
npm run lint
In case you want to run the backend only
In
express/runs
npm installthen
npm run startTo get the image for today
http://localhost:3000/image
To get the name and coordinates from a location, provides a location name, or the coordinates
http://localhost:3000/geocode?location={{location_name}}
To get the weather from a location, provides a location name
http://localhost:3000/weather?location={{location_name}}
The challenge proposes this UI:
I make a feel changes in the UI, most for improve the UX, I use an UI plugin called Vuetify to focus more on the functionalities and less in the UI.
Some colors gain more contrast, and the icons are in a pattern used by google ( Material Design )
And it looks like this:
For the challenge, i made a express backend api to fetch the requested endpoints. This helps me allot to deal with the data in the project, and takes away the dependence of the app from third party apis.
Was a really exiting project! Simple, at first, but have some complexity when you look for the possibilities, the complexity goes on!
First time creating an express server, give some maintenance in the past, but never created one from scratch. Same thing for Docker! I already made some dockers to python project, but never for an Express, nor a Vue project. A wonderful experience!
Have a chance to take a look in tests with jest in Vue components, something I would like to know better... Could not resolve the warning from the UI plugin Vuetify, is nothing so critical, don't mess up with the tests, but is something that I could think to improve.