/search

In this route, API requests are made, and the data recieved gets displayed. Take a look at the following example:

When this route is triggered, it renders search-results.jinja, which inherits all HTML within search.jinja (which by extension, also inherits layout.jinja).

Here's how this is done from within app.py:

LOCAL_API_BASE_URL = "http://localhost:3000/" 
DEPLOYED_API_BASE_URL = "https://cool-corridors-api-service.onrender.com"

@app.route("/search", methods = ["GET", "POST"])
def results():

    zipcode = request.form.get("zipcode")
    params = {"zipcode": zipcode, "read_key": READ_KEY}
    
    # The API base url used depends on which API instance the developer desire to use
    zipcode_data =  requests.get(f"{DEPLOYED_API_BASE_URL}/data", params=params).json()
    
    if "error" in zipcode_data:
        zipcode_data = json.loads(zipcode_data)
        error = True
        error_data = zipcode_data["error"]
        return render_template("search.jinja", error = error, error_data = error_data)
    
    # use zipcode data and ROW_HEADERS to format the data displayed on the frontend
    climate_data = format_zipcode_data(zipcode_data)

    return render_template("search-results.jinja", climate_data = climate_data, zipcode = zipcode)

• When the user inputs their zipcode and presses enter, results() is triggered and in there, an HTTP GET request to the /data endpoint of the API is made. This is seen in the following line:

zipcode_data = requests.get(f"{DEPLOYED_API_BASE_URL}/data", params=params).json()

It is worth noting that if you're running the API locally on your machine, then you can replace DEPLOYED_API_BASE_URL with LOCAL_API_BASE_URL