Weather Guru

Weather Guru is an application that allows the user to view the observed (in the past 30 days) or forecasted (in the future) daily weather conditions for a given location using the Dark Sky API.

It is made using PHP 7 and Laravel Framework.

Demo

Check it live in here: http://weather-guru.herokuapp.com/

Views

There are 3 views:

• The home page: where to input the location and choose the unit (metric/imperial) for the results.
• The forecast page: where the current week forecast is displayed.
• The historical forecast page: where you can see the past 30 days forecast for that location.

Frameworks used

• Laravel 5.6
• jQuery
• BootStrap

Plugins installed

• jQuery validation
• Laravel Guzzle
• Laravel Dark Sky

APIs used

• Dark Sky API
• Google Maps JavaScript API

Considerations taken

As suggested in the Dark Sky documentation, I made use of the Laravel Dark Sky API wrapper. This was easy to use to grab the 7 day forecast results.

For obtaining the historical results, I implemented Guzzle to send multiple requests concurrently using promises and asynchronous requests. See: http://docs.guzzlephp.org/en/stable/quickstart.html#concurrent-requests

Environment configurations

• GOOGLE_MAPS_JS_API_KEY
• DARKSKY_API_KEY