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Flask Weather Dashboard

Build a web dashboard with Flask that fetches current weather and a short forecast from a public API and displays it for user-entered cities. Learners practice calling external APIs, templating with Jinja2, and basic web app structure with routes and forms.

Estimate
~8.5h
Steps
5
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Flask · requests · Jinja2

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Project roadmap

  1. 01

    Set up the Flask app and routes

    ~1.5h

    Scaffold a Flask project with a home route showing a city search form.

  2. 02

    Integrate a weather API

    ~2h

    Call a public weather API with requests, parse the JSON response, and handle API errors and missing cities.

  3. 03

    Build the results template

    ~2h

    Create a Jinja2 template that displays current conditions and a 3-day forecast with icons.

  4. 04

    Add caching for repeated lookups

    ~1.5h

    Cache recent city lookups in memory for a few minutes to avoid redundant API calls.

  5. 05

    Deploy-ready polish

    ~1.5h

    Add basic styling, error pages, and environment-variable based API key configuration.

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Tech stack

FlaskrequestsJinja2