The Purpose of This App

This application works with the restcountries.com search APIs to return countries based on a few different criteria: Name, Full Name, and Country Code. It has a PHP backend and a React frontend.

Prerequisite Software to Install

1. Install NPM, which should bring Node along with it.
2. Install PHP.

Getting Started With Countries Display App

1. Clone this repo to your local machine.
2. Navigate to a terminal within the project.
3. Enter npm install to get the node libraries downloaded and installed.
4. Run ./server in one terminal to get the PHP server running.
5. From a different terminal, run npm start to get the client going.

Notes From The Author

• This is a pretty good pass at the prompt, but could be improved with more time.
• This is the first time I've ever coded in PHP. I didn't have time for a lot of formal training, but I think I handled the basics. If you have feedback/advice for how I could make it better/follow better standards I am all ears.
• I'll take feedback on any of the project, really. I had a lot of fun getting this to work.
• I'd forgotten how difficult CORS errors can be. Some people made this wonderful resource: Solve CORS Errors
• I have regions and sub-regions return as "???" if they aren't specified from the API. While I was testing, there were islands that didn't have sub-regions specified that were causing the app to crash.
• Thank you for the opportunity to apply to Infosec.

Enjoy!