An Express.js Weather App

An event-driven asynchronous Express.js Weather app. This is the web application equivalent of Node.js Weather App.

This is part of Andrew Mead's (mead.io) "The Complete Node.js Developer Course".

Goal

Return a weather forecast based on user's input location

• Uses mapbox.com for forward geocoding
• Uses darksky.net to return the weather forecast for a given town/place.
• Uses npm hbs as the Express.js view engine for handlebars.js
• Uses the Fetch API to make an async call

Setup

• Create a (free) account with mapbox.com and darksky.net and provide the keys/tokens through an environment variable.
• Run git update-index --assume-unchanged config/tokens.json to avoid commiting the tokens to a remote repo

How to execute

1. From the command line:

# On normal node mode
DARKSKY_TOKEN="your-darksky-token" MAPBOX_TOKEN="<your-mapbox-token>"  npm run start

# On nodemon mode
DARKSKY_TOKEN="your-darksky-token" MAPBOX_TOKEN="<your-mapbox-token>"  npm run dev

2. Navigate to the browser:

# Locally
http://localhost:3000

# Heroku
https://pmonteiro-weather-service.herokuapp.com/

Heroku integration

Useful commands:

   heroku login
   heroku keys:add
   heroku create <UNIQUE_NAME>
   git push heroku master