denniskigen / react-weather

Weather that's easy on the eyes

React Weather is a beautiful weather app built on top of the OpenWeatherMap API.

Getting started

• Sign up over at openweathermap.org and get an API key.

• Fork the project and clone it locally.

• Install dependencies using pnpm:

  pnpm install

• Create a file at the root of the project called .env.local with the following contents:

  VITE_API_URL = 'https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5'
  VITE_API_KEY = The API key you obtained from openweathermap.org
  VITE_ICON_URL = 'https://openweathermap.org/img/w'
  

react-weather's Issues

I think settings button on navbar would look better

Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0

when i try to npm install the result show Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0 and preload animation

Time delay

Time is around 30 min delay in the app to my local time,
I am in Kathmandu

Edit: It is correct again, dont know how

Store the API key in backend

You have used stored the API key in environment file so it prevents anyone from seeing the API key. But when someone uses this application and inspect in the Network tab in the browser then they can easily see the API key. You need to store the API key in the backend which will act as a proxy server and instead of sending the request to weather API from frontend directly you should send the API call from the backend that way the API key wont be exposed in the browser.