How deanhouseholder/simple-weather-app works
Simple Weather App is a Laravel web app that shows local weather, either based on the visitor’s IP address or a searched city. The main workflow resolves a location, requests weather by coordinates, then renders a result or search error. The README also documents the FreeGeoIP and OpenWeather integrations; the controller source confirms how those services are coordinated. Source excerpts do not show the route declaration or the API client internals, so those links reflect only documented responsibilities, not uninspected call details.
Main entry points: WeatherController.php Weather controller · FreeGeoIp.php IP geolocation client · OpenWeather.php Weather client · index.php HTTP entry
Components 13
Web application
- HTTP entry
public/index.php - HTTP kernel
app/Http/Kernel.php - Route registration
app/Providers/RouteServiceProvider.php - Web routes
routes/web.php - Weather controller
app/Http/Controllers/WeatherController.php - Weather page
resources/views/home.blade.php - Error page
resources/views/error.blade.php
Location lookup
- IP helper
app/Classes/Helpers.php - IP geolocation client
app/Classes/FreeGeoIp.php
Weather lookup
- Weather client
app/Classes/OpenWeather.php
Other components
- Visitor
- FreeGeoIP API
- OpenWeather API
Connections 13
- Visitor → HTTP entry: sends request
- HTTP entry → HTTP kernel: handles request
- Route registration → Web routes: loads routes
- Web routes → Weather controller: routes to
- Weather controller → IP helper: gets client IP
- Weather controller → IP geolocation client: looks up IP
- IP geolocation client → FreeGeoIP API: requests location
- FreeGeoIP API → IP geolocation client: returns location
- Weather controller → Weather client: searches city
- Weather controller → Weather client: requests coordinates
- Weather client → OpenWeather API: requests weather
- Weather controller → Weather page: renders weather
- Weather controller → Error page: renders search error