Front-End Developer Nanodegree - Capstone Project

1. What is this about?

This is the final project in the Front-End Developer Nanodegree by Udacity. It combines everything the nanodegree teaches and then some.

a. User scenario

You just took a few days off work and you want to visit a particular city, but you need to know what the weather is/will be like so you can pack appropriate clothes.

b. User tasks

1. Enter start and end date of your vacation.
2. Enter the city you want to visit.
3. Click Search button.

c. Expected outcomes

The app displays:

1. City name, country name.
2. Min and max temperatures within a date range.
3. A photo of the city the user entered.

2. How does it work?

1. App takes the three inputs: Start date, end date, city name.
2. Then with the city name, the app makes a request to Geonames API to get the latitude and longitude.
3. The coordinates previously requested along with the dates the user entered are used to make a request to Weatherbit API* to get the weather within that range of days.
4. The city name is also used to make a request to the Pixabay API, to get a picture of the destination.

• Note: Although Weatherbit API accepts city names, the project expect us to use multiple APIs for this project, hence the need to use Geonames for coordinates.

3. Technologies and resources used

1. HTML + CSS + JavaScript
2. Node, Express.js, Webpack, Babel, Luxon.js (for dates), Litepicker (for date picker)

4. How do I run this project?

Asuming you have everything listed in the package.json installed, you start the server with:

npm start

Run production mode:

npm run build-prod

Run development mode:

npm run build-dev