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Let's build a weather app with vite and react - part 1

Intro to the project and setting up vitejs

Setup the project

We are going to use vite, with react and everything will be TypeScript.

The plan for this group of tutorials it to learn how to use vite, quickly build a UI with React and Bootstrap, and then add more features on top of it.

Vitejs

For this first part, let’s start by creating the project:

Installation steps

Most of the boilerplate is unnecessary, so we are going to remove the css files and use styled-components instead.

Our folder structure will look like this:

Folder structure

Additional libraries

Let’s install what we need.

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npm run install styled-components --save
npm run install @types/styled-components --save-dev

And while we are at it, let’s install react-bootstrap:

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npm install react-bootstrap bootstrap --save
npm install react-bootstrap-icons --save

Now that we have everything ready, we can start creating the main page, which will contain a search bar and a list of components (cities). Each city will be clickable.

A quick preview

Let’s build the main page

We only need a search bar, and a list of cities. The CityList component will be separate for clarity, and will have a cities property containing the results of our search.

For now we will hardcode it to:

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const cities = [
  { name: 'London', lat: '51.507351', lng: '-0.127758' },
  { name: 'New York', lat: '40.730610', lng: '-73.935242' },
  { name: 'Tokyo', lat: '35.689487', lng: '139.691706' },
  { name: 'Paris', lat: '48.856614', lng: '2.352222' },
];

So the main page will look like:

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// src/pages/MainPage.tsx
const MainPage = () => {
  return (
    <ViewContainer>
      <InputGroup className='mb-3'>
        <Form.Control
          placeholder='Search city'
          aria-label='Search city'
          aria-describedby='city'
        />
        <Button variant='outline-primary' id='city'>
          Search
        </Button>
      </InputGroup>
      <CityList cities={cities} />
    </ViewContainer>
  );
};

export default MainPage;

For our CityList component, we will only loop over the cities property and display the name of each city in a ListGroup component.

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// src/components/CityList.tsx
const CityList = (props: CityListProps) => {
  const onCityClick = (city: City) => {
    console.log(city);
  };

  return (
    <ListGroup>
      {props.cities.map((city) => (
        <ListGroup.Item
          key={city.name}
          action
          onClick={() => onCityClick(city)}
        >
          <h4>{city.name}</h4>
        </ListGroup.Item>
      ))}
    </ListGroup>
  );
};

export default CityList;

As we are using typescript, we need to type our variables properly, so here are the types used in this component:

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type City = { name: string; lat: string; lng: string };
type CityListProps = { cities: Array<City>; };

Our first part is now done, we do have a project ready with hardcoded data.

In our second part we will see how to search for cities using MapBox.

Next step Part 2