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+Build a Weather API visualization app
+
+* The app will have a navbar with two items: Dashboard and Options
+
+## Dashboard route
+
+* Consists of charts around weather data.
+* Connect to a weather API, you can use https://www.weatherapi.com which has a free offering
+* Have 1 line chart with time on the x axis and some weather parameter of your choice as the y axis
+* Have the capability to select a date range for querying the api
+* Have client-side caching
+
+## Options route
+
+* Be able to input the width of the line of the chart
+* Be able to select the default query date range
+* All of this must be persisted across reloads of the app site or login out and in again