Simple Weather Journal

A simple application that searches for the temperature of a place based on zipcode. Works only for US zipcode.

Coding steps

Install Node
Set up Node environment with Express
Install Cors and Body-Parsers dependencies
Setup Server with GET and POST routes
Create developer credentials for Web API on OpenWeatherMap
Use Fetch API and user input to dynamicly get data
Access a GET route on the server side with Endpoint Data
Use asynchronous funtion to fetch Endpoint Data on client side
Chain Promises together to get desired result
POST data and update app on client side
User HTML elements with JS to set properties dynamically
Debug and clean up code

Libraries

OpenWeatherMap API

Getting Started

To install the application it is necessary to have the Node installed on your machine. Please make sure to enter your own APIKey.

Installing

At the root of the application install the dependencies

npm install

Initialize the server

node server.js

Access the localhost on port 5500

http://localhost:5050/