Weather Widget

by jean-philippe janecek

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/weather-icons/1.3.2/css/weather-icons.min.css">
<div class="component__weather-box">
  <div class="component__weather-content">
    <div class="weather-content__overview"></div>
    <div class="weather-content__temp"></div>
  </div>
  <div class="component__forecast-box"></div>
</div>

CSS

/* Styles */

body {
  background: #dce2e5;
  font-family: "Roboto", sans-serif;
  font-weight: 100;
  font-size: 11px;
}

.component__weather-box {
  margin: 30px auto;
  width: 420px;
  border: 1px solid #de6042;
  border-radius: 10px;
  overflow: hidden;
  box-shadow: 2px 5px 20px 1px #444;
}

.component__weather-content {
  position: relative;
  overflow: hidden;
  color: #fff;
  background: #E06B4F;
  height: 120px;
}

.component__weather-content:before {
  content: "";
  display: block;
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  z-index: 1;
  opacity: 0.3;
  background-image: url("https://nunnz.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/4.jpg");
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-position: 0 63%;
  background-size: cover;
}

.weather-content__overview {
  width: 50%;
  text-align: center;
  display: inline-block;
  float: left;
  z-index: 2;
  position: relative;
}

h1 {
  font-weight: 400;
  font-size: 40px;
  line-height: 40px;
  padding-bottom: 0;
  margin-bottom: 0;
  margin-top: 0.75em;
}

.weather-content__temp {
  width: 50%;
  z-index: 2;
  text-align: center;
  float: left;
  font-size: 50px;
  text-align: center;
  margin-top: 0.5em;
  position: relative;
  vertical-align: middle;
}

.weather-content__temp .degrees {
  line-height: 40px;
}

.weather-content__temp .wi-degrees {
  margin-left: -10px;
  vertical-align: top !important;
}

.currentTemp .wi {
  margin-right: 20px;
  font-size: 40px;
  vertical-align: baseline;
}

.component__forecast-box {
  display: flex;
  clear: both;
}

.forecast__item {
  flex: 1;
  text-align: center;
}

.forecast-item__heading {
  background: #e68872;
  border: 1px solid #d64826;
  border-left: none;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  color: #fff;
  font-weight: 800;
  padding: 10px;
}

.forecast-item__info {
  background: #fff;
  color: #E06B4F;
  padding-bottom: 10px;
  border-right: 1px solid #d64826;
}

.forecast-item__info .wi {
  display: block;
  margin: 0 auto;
  font-size: 24px;
 ...

JavaScript

const CURRENT_LOCATION = document.getElementsByClassName('weather-content__overview')[0];
const CURRENT_TEMP = document.getElementsByClassName('weather-content__temp')[0];
const FORECAST = document.getElementsByClassName('component__forecast-box')[0];

// Use Fetch API to GET data from OpenWeather API
// return json
function getWeatherData(position) {
  let headers = new Headers();
  const URL = `https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/daily?${position}&cnt=7&units=imperial&APPID=e43f64ee98be9268f7a7f49e34aecfdf`;

  return fetch(URL, {
    method: 'GET',
    headers: headers
  }).then(data => data.json());
}

// TUTORIAL READERS:
// yeah, using an external resource for the icons and applying them here using a switch block
function applyIcon(icon) {
  let selectedIcon;
  switch (icon) {
    case '01d':
      selectedIcon = "wi-day-sunny"
      break;
    case '01n':
      selectedIcon = "wi-night-clear"
      break;
    case '02d':
    case '02n':
      selectedIcon = "wi-cloudy"
      break;
    case '03d':
    case '03n':
    case '04d':
    case '04n':
      selectedIcon = "wi-night-cloudy"
      break;
    case '09d':
    case '09n':
      selectedIcon = "wi-showers"
      break;
    case '10d':
    case '10n':
      selectedIcon = "wi-rain"
      break;
    case '11d':
    case '11n':
      selectedIcon = "wi-thunderstorm"
      break;
    case '13d':
    case '13n':
      selectedIcon = "wi-snow"
      break;
    case '50d':
    case '50n':
      selectedIcon = "wi-fog"
      break;
    default:
      selectedIcon = "wi-meteor"
  }
  return selectedIcon;
}

// Use returned json from promise to render daily forecast
renderData = (location, forecast) => {
  // render city, current weather description and temp
  const currentWeather = forecast[0].weather[0];
  const widgetHeader = `<h1>${location.name}</h1><small>${currentWeather.description}</small>`;
  CURRENT_TEMP.innerHTML = `<i class="wi ${applyIcon(currentWeather.icon)}"></i>...