Getting fancier – a basic weather application

It should be quite obvious that Svelte has built up its compiler to work with most of the modern ECMAScript standards. One area where they do not provide any sort of wrapper is for fetching data. A good way to add this and see the effects is to build a basic weather application.

A weather application, at its core, needs to be able to take in a zip code or city and spit out information about the current weather for that region. We can also get an outlook for the weather based on this location. Finally, we can also save these choices in the browser, so we can use them when we come back to the application.

For our weather data, we are going to pull from https://openweathermap.org/api. Here, the free ...

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