suncalc
Goals
- Find out the average sunrise times for a year
- Get back into coding
Description
First version used the API for https://sunrise-sunset.org/ which was very accurate but I was hitting rate limits pretty quickly. I then adapted to use the equations from Wikipedia which seemed a little too approximate for my location. Final version uses mourner's suncalc which after a little tweaking seemed accurate enough.
Uses Chart.js to draw the graphs which turned out to be nice and simple. Best fit lines do not come by default and require another package so I just made do with adding some extra dashed lines manually.
Since the first version of this used fetch to access the API, the code was pretty heavy on the JavaScript Promises and functional programming. Once the API code was removed the code was slowly stripped back to the more common imperative way of doing things. I'd like to find another excuse to use Promises so I can wrap my head around them a bit more.