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Hava Durumu

My first Laravel project: an OpenWeather-backed app that reskins itself to match the weather and time of day.

2026
  • Laravel
  • PHP
  • Blade
  • OpenWeather API

Problem

A first step into backend. The goal was deliberately small: see end to end how a framework handles a request, how it talks to an external API and where secrets live. But not a "hello world" — something usable.

Solution

A weather app where you type a city name and it fetches live data from the OpenWeather API: temperature, humidity and conditions. The small twist: the interface reacts to the data — a clear summer night, a snowy noon and a stormy evening each arrive with a different theme.

Approach

  • Condition classification: OpenWeather's condition codes (2xx thunderstorm, 5xx rain, 6xx snow, 800 clear...) are read together with the icon suffix (n = night) and mapped to theme classes like night-rain, day-sunny and thunder.
  • Laravel fundamentals: the route → controller → Blade view flow, external API calls through the Http client, the API key kept in .env.
  • Honest scope: one controller, one route. This project isn't a product, it's a starting point — the ground Film Arşivim and Baitless were later built on.
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