mahesh147 / weather-forecast

A very basic weather forecast app made using React with the help of 3rd party APIs

Weather-Forecast

What is this repo about?

This repo contains the source code for a web app that displays the weather forecast for any city.

What is the tech-stack?

This web-app was made with React. Redux was used for state management, and Redux-Promise was used as middleware. Axios was used to make API calls.

Where is the weather forecast information collected from?

openweathermap.org has a really good API system in place. This web-app leverages from that.

How do I run this locally on my machine?

• Download or clone this repo.
• Navigate to the project folder and run - npm install.
• To set up the local dev server, run - npm start.
• Open your browser and navigate to the specified localhost.

Where is the API_KEY?

My API_KEY has been excluded from this public repo. You'll need to use your own API_KEY if you want to run this locally. Go to http://openweathermap.org/api , you'll probably have to signup for an account before you get an API key.

Once you have the API_KEY, add the following line of code to WeatherForecast/src/actions/index.js :

const API_KEY = 'YOUR API_KEY GOES HERE'

How do I fetch the weather forecast data for countries other than India?

By default, the web-app will only fetch weather forecast for places in India, if you want to change it then, edit the following line of code in WeatherForecast/src/actions/index.js :

export function fetchWeather (city) {
                                                                   
	const url = `${ROOT_URL}&q=${city},[ENTER THE COUNTRY CODE THAT YOU WANT TO FETCH WEATHER FORECAST DATA FROM]`;

	...// Rest of the code

}

For example, if you want to change the country to US, then:

	const url = `${ROOT_URL}&q=${city},us';

For Germany, that would be :

	const url = `${ROOT_URL}&q=${city},ge';

...so on and so forth.

NOTE

If you like this project, consider giving it a star. I'd appreciate it. :D