Weather Console

This is an introductory project that I built using go. I wanted to build something that wouldn't take more than a couple of hours to get working.

Running the project

To start the project copy the .env.example file and rename it to .env.

cp .env.example .env

Then go to OpenWeather API's website and signup to get an API key and store that in the .env file along with your zip code and country.

Finally navigate to the directory and run

go run .

Goals

• Get JSON data from an API
• Read .env file and get configuration options for the API
• Create a terminal application

Discovery

I started by looking at projects like wtf and stripe-cli and reading their dependencies then going to the pages of packages I found interesting.

I found an awesome website for converting JSON data to a go struct that helped me map OpenWeather API data. https://mholt.github.io/json-to-go/