Responsive Rest Countries with Vite

What are you most proud of, and what would you do differently next time?

I'm most proud of building a responsive application that presents a large amount of country data clearly while supporting search, region filtering, country detail views, and light/dark themes. I also kept the project strongly typed with TypeScript and organised the interface into reusable React components.

Next time, I would plan the deployment setup earlier and define environment-specific base paths from the start. I would also add automated tests for filtering, navigation, and theme persistence before polishing the UI.

What challenges did you encounter, and how did you overcome them?

Deployment also required extra attention because GitHub Pages serves the app from a repository subdirectory, whereas Vercel serves it from the root. I resolved this by configuring the Vite base path for the target environment.