Begin a refactor of code to make it more reusable and get it out of main. Going to stop worrying about this for now though and just get the data formatted and presented well, then refactor once it's working correctly.

lib/helpers/http.dart

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+// File for helper functions.
+
+import '/var/config.dart';
+import '/var/secrets.dart';
+import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
+import 'package:http/http.dart' as http;
+import 'dart:convert';
+
+// Generic method to hit a GET request and return the response.
+Future<String> hitAPI(String url) async {
+  if (debug) debugPrint(url);
+
+  http.Response response = await http.get(Uri.parse(url));
+
+  String data = "";
+  if (response.statusCode == 200) {
+    data = response.body;
+    var decodedData = jsonDecode(data);
+    if (debugVerbose) debugPrint(decodedData.toString());
+    data = decodedData.toString();
+  } else {
+    if (debug) debugPrint(response.statusCode.toString());
+  }
+
+  return data;
+}
+
+// How to guide: https://openweathermap.org/current#zip
+Future<String> hitOpenWeatherZip(String zipCode, String? countryCode) async {
+  countryCode ??= "US";
+
+  String url =
+      '$openWeatherAPI'
+      '?zip=$zipCode,$countryCode'
+      '&units=imperial'
+      '&appid=$openWeatherKey';
+
+  String data = await hitAPI(url);
+  return data;
+}
+
+// Convert the Future value into a usable value.
+loadWeather() async {
+  return await hitOpenWeatherZip("47630", "US");
+}