udacity-weather-journal-app-project

This is the repository for Project 3: Weather Journal App of the Udacity Front End Web Developer Nanodegree Program.

Goals of this project:

• create asynchronous web app that uses Web API and user data to dynamically update the UI for the App
• former front end only folder structure customized to add server environment
• provide informative weather details and user friendly symbols in UI

Functionalities used:

• Node.js with npm and packages Express, CORS and Body-Parser
• instead of promises (resolve/reject) using async functions to make use of await, try and catch
• Fetch API to use Request and Response objects
• GET/POST routes
• ES6 functionalities like Arrow Functions where possible and Template Literals

Steps to start

• download repository
• check Node.js installation in Terminal with node --version and install if not present
• install dependencies via npm (included with Node.js) with npm install from package.json
• Credits to https://pravnyadv.github.io/unpackage/ for creation of package.json from package-lock.json
• start server in project folder with node server.js
• open browser with running server on chosen port - default localhost:3000

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