Weather-Journal App Project

Getting Setup

introduction

This application is for Udacity frontend project. It was meant for creating an asynchronous web app that uses openWeatherMap Api and dynamically update UI

• It sets Node environment with express
• Has a server GET and POST routes
• Dynamically Update UI

Installing Dependencies

Installing Node and NPM

This project depends on Nodejs and Node Package Manager (NPM). you must download and install Node (the download includes NPM) from https://nodejs.com/en/download.

Installing express

Express tool for HTTP servers for making single page applications Express documentation.

Installing project dependencies

This project uses NPM to manage software dependencies. NPM Relies on the package.json file located in the root directory of this repository. After cloning, open your terminal and locate to the project directory and run:

npm install

Project structure

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├── commentsOnlyJS
├── website                 # Website files (index.html, app.js, static files)
│   ├── app.js              # containing the functions for api requests get and post
│   ├── index.html          # main html page
│   └── style.css           # stylesheet
└── ...

OpenWeatherMap API

You can get your own api keys, but for testing the project I have provided mine. You can get api key by going to Open Weather API and register and choose to subscribe to current weather data

Run the project

After installing the dependencies in your terminal run

npm start