Weather-Journal App Project

Developer: Ahmad A. Khabeer

Email: ahmadadelkhabeer@gmail.com

Overview

This project is about building an asynchronous web app that uses Web API and user data to dynamically update the UI.

Instructions

This will require modifying the server.js file and the website/app.js file. You can see index.html for element references, and once you are finished with the project steps, you can use style.css to style your application to customized perfection.

Tools:

1. HTML
2. CSS
3. Javascript

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.

Extras

If you are interested in testing your code as you go, you can use tests.js as a template for writing and running some basic tests for your code.