What is whereto?

WhereTo. is an experimental web app, created to compare different travel destinations by climate.

The user can search for similar destinations around the world, which are categorised using their Köppen climate classification.

Who made it?

The project was developed by a 'Team X' - a group of 5 students on the Northcoders Coding Bootcamp. This was their first time working as a group.

Development took place over a couple of weeks in February-March 2022.

You can find out more in the project's GitHub repo.

How's it built?

The team decided to try out some new technology that was not taught on the course (which was mainly based around JavaScript, Node and React).

The app uses the Svelte framework, TypeScript, MongoDB for the databases, and various APIs to grab location images and weather data. All brought together with copious amounts of JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

Credits

Thanks to the open source community and various creatives and developers who help make projects like this possible.

Unsplash - community of 'open source' photographers. Thanks for the beautiful background images.

OpenWeatherMap API - for the weather forecast data.

Okiolab Weather Data API - for providing historical weather data.

Chart.js - for helping our charts look nice.

Google Places API - for location imagery from the Google Maps Platform.