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Weather Dashboard

Build a real-time Weather Dashboard that fetches live weather data from the OpenWeatherMap API. Display temperature, humidity, wind speed, and forecasts in a clean, responsive UI. A great project to learn API integration and modern React data-fetching patterns.

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What You Will Build

A responsive Weather Dashboard where users can search for any city and instantly view current weather conditions — including temperature, humidity, wind speed, UV index, and a 5-day forecast — all powered by the OpenWeatherMap API.

Concepts You'll Learn

  • Fetching data from a third-party REST API
  • Environment variables and API key management
  • React useState and useEffect hooks
  • Async/await and error handling
  • Conditional rendering and loading states
  • Responsive design with Tailwind CSS
  • Next.js App Router and server/client components
  • Debouncing user input for search

Tech Stack

Next.jsReactTailwind CSSOpenWeatherMap APIAxios

References

1🌐 Website

Test Your API

Online tool / resource

2🌐 Website

Tailwind cheat sheet

Online tool / resource

3📚 Docs

OpenWeatherMap API Documentation

Official documentation

4📚 Docs

Next.js Data Fetching — Official Docs

Official documentation

5📄 Article

Using Environment Variables in Next.js — MDN & Vercel

In-depth reading

6📚 Docs

Tailwind CSS Quickstart

Official documentation

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