Weather Or Not

Weather Or Not

Inspiration

The monotony of searching up the weather does not generate the excitement necessary to encourage users to check it every day. The importance of frequently checking it cannot be understated in preventing any unpleasant surprises. We hoped to come up with a way that would make people, specifically the younger generation, look forward to looking up the weather often.

What it does

It replaces the typical temperature readings with either slang or pretentious jargon. This allows users to not only get a laugh out at least once a day, but also are able to quickly understand what possibilities the weather could allow them to do in a silly manner.

How we built it

We used ReactJS for the front-end application and handle client-side logic. We also embedded Bootstrap for the basic style of the elements as well as some customized CSS. For the backend, we used Flask, a Python web Framework to query the API and output the data to React in JSON format.

Challenges we ran into

Working with React and API, one of the most common challenges we ran into was our HTTP request being blocked by CORS policy and our React render elements being blocked by Adblocker. There was a couple of ways to solve this challenge, which was to use a proxy server. Another issue we ran into was we hit our limit for the API, and therefore the API wouldn't provide us with data anymore.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that we got an MVP working. Our team didn't have any formal experience with web development using React, so this was a really helpful learning experience. Despite the challenges we faced, we managed to create a working prototype.

What we learned

We learned the basics of React and how to fetch data from API endpoints. We also learned ways to solve CORS policy problems, which we can carry with us in the future.