lshillman / personal-weather-dashboard

A page that fetches some weather information I care about from 3rd-party APIs.

Personal Weather Dashboard

Check out the live dashboard

I like knowing the weather, and I dislike using Google (only half joking about that last part. A company with that much power shouldn't also control the WEATHER!). Anyway, I needed some practice with third-party APIs, so this seemed like a good idea at the time. Search for your city on the page, and your search history is saved in localStorage so you can easily come back to it later.

Technologies used:

• HTML
• CSS
• JS
• Bootstrap
• OpenWeather geocoding and One Call APIs

Code snippet

This was maddening: I only wanted a new location to be added to the search history if the user had typed something into the search field and clicked 'search'. Clicking on search history items shouldn't re-add them to the search history! There must be a better way of doing this, but in the end I created a global variable called "clickedHistoryItem" and used that to keep track of user actions.

$('#currentHeader').html(locDisplayName + " (" + moment().format("MM/DD/YYYY") + ") <img id='currentIcon' src='https://openweathermap.org/img/wn/" + data.current.weather[0].icon + "@2x.png' />");

// only add stuff to the search history if the user typed something into the search field and clicked 'search'
if (!clickedHistoryItem) {
    searchHistory.push({name: locDisplayName, latitude: lat, longitude: lon});
    localStorage.setItem('searchHist', JSON.stringify(searchHistory));
    renderSearchHistory();
    citySearch.val("");
}

displayWeatherData(data);

In action

Here's a little clip of searching for locations and revisiting places in the search history:

weather-dashboard.mov

Credits

As always: https://www.w3.org/WAI/

And what would I have done without OpenWeather's API documentation:

License

You are hereby granted no rights. Talk to me if you want to use this for something. And don't use my API key!