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React Open Weather

React open weather is a React Component loading forecast data from OpenWeather API.

Features Implemented:

  1. Showing Today Weather
  2. Showing 5 days Weather Forecast

The Component development is in progress and will contain more features in the future versions.

Demo & Docs

Dependencies

Installation

First you will need to register and account on OpenWeather website and obtain an API key

Next, in your project directory run:

    $ npm install react-open-weather

you will need to add link to weather icons css file in your html file or require it in your build process Weather Icons, or you can directly use the CDN.

<link
  rel="stylesheet"
  href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/weather-icons/2.0.9/css/weather-icons.min.css"
  type="text/css"
/>

Then in your code file you can import the component

Using ES2015 import

import ReactWeather from 'react-open-weather';
//Optional include of the default css styles
import 'react-open-weather/lib/css/ReactWeather.css';

Using CommonJS

var ReactWeather = require('react-open-weather').default;
//Optional include of the default css styles
require('react-open-weather/lib/css/ReactWeather.css');

UMD build is available with script tag

<script src="node_modules/react-open-weather/lib/js/ReactWeather.js"></script>

Usage

1-Loading today weather data by city name

<ReactWeather
  forecast="today"
  apikey="YOUR_API_KEY"
  type="city"
  city="Munich"
/>

2-Loading today data by longitude and latitude

<ReactWeather
  forecast="today"
  apikey="YOUR_API_KEY"
  type="geo"
  lat="48.1351"
  lon="11.5820"
/>

3-Loading today data based on the current IP address (default)

<ReactWeather forecast="today" apikey="YOUR_API_KEY" type="auto" />

3-Loading 5 days forecast

<ReactWeather
  forecast="5days"
  apikey="YOUR_API_KEY"
  type="city"
  city="Munich"
/>

4-Changing the the units to imperial system

<ReactWeather
  forecast="today"
  unit="imperial"
  apikey="YOUR_API_KEY"
  type="city"
  city="Munich"
/>

5-Changing the language

<ReactWeather
  forecast="today"
  unit="imperial"
  apikey="YOUR_API_KEY"
  type="city"
  city="Munich"
  lang="es"
/>

Props Options

Props Options Default Description
type 'city', 'geo' city Determine the data should be loaded by city name or longitude and latitude
city Name of the city to show forecast for, must be provided if the type='city'
lon Longitude value, must be provided if the type='geo'
lat latitude value, must be provided if the type='geo'
forecast 'today', '5days' today Determine what forecast to show, today or today plus 4 days ahead
apikey Your API key for open weather map API
unit 'imperial', 'meteric' meteric The unit system you want to use, for Meteric the temperature will be shown in Celsius and distances will be in kilometers, for Imperial the temperature will be shown in Fahrenheit and distances in miles.
lang lang codes en Returns 'condition:text' field in API in the desired language, Please pass 'lang code' from below table. e.g.: lang=es

Translate Wind and Humidity

In lang.js you can implement the necessary translation, to correctly translate Wind and Humidity into other languages, if you want to implement another language, this is where you can do it. Remember to make a Pull request to share it with everyone

    langText: {
          en: { Wind: 'Wind', Humidity: 'Humidity',},
          es: { Wind: 'Viento', Humidity: 'Humedad',}
        }

Language and lang codes from OpenWeather

Language lang code
Arabic ar
Bengali bn
Bulgarian bg
Chinese Simplified zh
Chinese Traditional zh_tw
Czech cs
Danish da
Dutch nl
Finnish fi
French fr
German de
Greek el
Hindi hi
Hungarian hu
Italian it
Japanese ja
Javanese jv
Korean ko
Mandarin zh_cmn
Marathi mr
Polish pl
Portuguese pt
Punjabi pa
Romanian ro
Russian ru
Serbian sr
Sinhalese si
Slovak sk
Spanish es
Swedish sv
Tamil ta
Telugu te
Turkish tr
Ukrainian uk
Urdu ur
Vietnamese vi
Wu (Shanghainese) zh_wuu
Xiang zh_hsn
Yue (Cantonese) zh_yue
Zulu zu

Contribution

If you want to contribute to the project and make it better, your help is very welcome, create a pull request with your suggested feature/bug fix/ enhancements.