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by e15ctr0n 1670 days ago
I loved your app; it is indeed very simple to use. I would have liked to see the location name and current weather right on the home page of the app. Do you have a Github where I could download the code and deploy it on my own servers?

Great job overall!

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Thank you!

All the Javascript code is in that html page source. The Bootstrap and jQuery you can grab from their sites. I'm using their latest version for this.

All I did was go copy urls from the NOAA site and fetch just the images and data I wanted from them. Their web site is huge so you kind of have to poke around a bit but they have a lot of data you can get there.

I do have a very old version I played with years ago that I think did pinpoint your location on the Radar map. I'll try to find it and take another look at how I did that and if I can I'll add it to this app.

It would be great if you could make it an interactive webapp, in the sense that anyone could put in their location, and then your code would fetch all the corresponding images and data from the NOAA site.
NOAA has the data to do that so it's certainly possible, but their app already does it and is very good, and so are many others.

This is an intentionally minimal approach I took and I made it mainly for when I am outdoors hiking, camping, float trips, ect.

I think it demonstrates a simple way to get started on what you're talking about and maybe someone will. NOAA provides great access and detailed documentation for their data and I'd love to see this little app inspire that!