weather-app-javascript

This is a weather app using http://openweathermap.org/forecast5 API. App available at: ouezeur app

api response example when making a request with city qs: curl http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast\?q\=london\&APPID\=<YOUR_TOKEN> | prettyjson

running the project

npm run start

dev

npm run dev (opens on PORT :3010)

deploying

API KEY

API_KEY will store your API token in process.env. Deploy with now using now -e API_KEY=<YOUR_API_KEY>

encrypting you API key before deploying

Make sure you encrypt <YOUR_API_KEY>`` before deploying: now secret add api_key <YOUR_API_KEY>`

deploying

now will automatically run install, build, start when deploying which can be overriden by now-build, now-start scripts.

custom domain name

now alias <YOUR_MOST_RECENT_URL> YOUR_ALIAS

improvements

• unit tests
• clearfix
• create a middleware to be injected in the route to make app.js more modular and easier to read
• managing 404 error where API returns something anyway