Made for eSalon by Dean Householder on 23 Mar 2021 Updated on 19 Dec 2022 to use OpenWeather API instead of MetaWeather Hosted on https://weather.deanhouseholder.com/
Original requirements were to build a simple weather app using a modern framework which fetches the latitude/longitude for the user's IP from the freegeoip.app API. Then to looks up the weather from the metaweather.com API. Then displays it on a clean web interface. While this could've been a javascript-based app entirely, the focus was on PHP backend skills.
2023 - MetaWeather is now defunct so I re-engineered it to use the OpenWeatherMap.org API instead.
| File path | Description |
|---|---|
| app/Classes/FreeGeoIp.php | FreeGeoIp class to communicate with freegeoip.app API |
| app/Classes/Helpers.php | Helpers class to provide one-off functions |
| app/Classes/OpenWeather.php | OpenWeather class to communicate with openweathermap.org API |
| app/Controllers/WeatherController.php | Main page controller to tie together to api logic |
| app/config/app.php | Defined configuration variables in the App config |
| public/img/* | Uploaded various images |
| public/favicon.ico | Added a weather favicon |
| resources/sass/app.scss | Added custom styles in SCSS |
| resources/views/home.blade.php | Main view for displaying weather data |
| resources/views/error.blade.php | Error view for when city is not found |
| resources/views/snippets/footer.blade.php | Site Footer |
| resources/views/snippets/header.blade.php | Site Header |
| routes/web.php | Added the main route |
Implemented in Laravel/Bootstrap, as requested. Used https://freegeoip.app/ and https://www.metaweather.com/api/ as requested. Updated later to use https://openweathermap.org/.
See inline comments for walk-through.
I completed this project in about 6 hours. If I had more time, I would add tests, scrub user input, add a solution to missing cities, and improve the icons.