Weather App Using External API in Node.js

Weather App Using External API in Node.js — a practical guide to Node.js weather API project with clear examples you can reuse in real projects.

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Short description

Practice fetch, env keys, and JSON parsing by building a weather lookup tool. Keep API keys out of source control.

Weather CLI sketch

const city = process.argv[2] || 'London';
const key = process.env.WEATHER_API_KEY;

async function weather(city) {
  const url = `https://api.example.com/weather?q=${encodeURIComponent(city)}&appid=${key}`;
  const res = await fetch(url);
  const data = await res.json();
  console.log(city, data);
}

weather(city);