Build a React Weather App
Learn how to create a React function-based component application that fetches weather information from the OpenWeatherMap API.
Wijmo is a complete collection of extensible, fast, flexible JavaScript UI components written in TypeScript. The framework-agnostic Wijmo components include first-class support for top frameworks including Angular, React, Vue and Web Components. Wijmo Enterprise has over 100 dynamic JavaScript UI components to help cut your development time in half, allowing you to build lightweight, high-performance JavaScript applications using your favorite JavaScript framework.
In this blog post, MESCIUS Technical Engagement Engineer Andrew Peterson shows you how to utilize the Wijmo Gauges - along with the OpenWeatherMap API - to build a React app to display the current weather. Steps include:
Setting up the React app
Installing Packages
Getting the OpenWeatherMap API Key
Creating the Weather Component
Integrating WeatherComponent into the App
Adding the Wijmo Gauge and Styling