IP Address Tracker

Head over to ip.davebitter.com for a demo.

I build this IP Address Tracker as a demo project to show how you can build an interactive web application using Remix. Head over to About>Remix for more information on the framework itself.

I use this web application as part of a talk on the basics of Remix. Head over to my website for an overview of the talks I give and/or shoot me a message at [email protected] if you are interested in me giving this talk at your event!

This application is a more extensive version of this frontend challenge by frontendmentor.io. The goal is to create a nicely designed web application that will make some calls to an API to retrieve information for a passed IP address and display an interactive map with the retrieved location.

APIs

IP Address Tracker uses several APIs to retrieve data.

• ipify API to retrieve the current user's IP as a good default
• GeoIP API to retrieve information on submitted IP
• leaflet-geosearch to retrieve information on location

Getting started

Run development environment

• yarn dev or npm run dev - starts the development environment with auto reloading and all that good stuff. Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.

• yarn dev:netlify or npm run dev:netlify - starts the development environment as it would be ran on Netlify. Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.

Scripts

Besides these development scripts, there are many more scripts set up:

• clean - Cleans build folder
• deploy:netlify - Deploys to Netlify
• postinstall - Sets up Node
• start - Starts Remix server

Tech stack

Remix

IP Address Tracker uses Remix to

• provide SSR React.js. Pages are automatically optimised to deliver the best experience.
• handle routing
• generate builds
• and more

TypeScript

IP Address Tracker used TypeScript for static checking and documentation. You can view the Typescript config in ./tsconfig.json.

Tailwind

IP Address Tracker used Tailwind to make it easy to implement the design for this challenge.

Netflify (CI/CD)

IP Address Tracker uses Netlify (♥️) to build, deploy and optimise.