Frontend Mentor - Shortly URL shortening API Challenge solution

This is a solution to the Shortly URL shortening API Challenge challenge on Frontend Mentor. Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building realistic projects.

Table of contents

• Overview
  • The challenge
  • Screenshot
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Continued development
  • Useful resources
• Author
• Acknowledgments

Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• View the optimal layout for the site depending on their device's screen size
• Shorten any valid URL
• See a list of their shortened links, even after refreshing the browser
• Copy the shortened link to their clipboard in a single click
• Receive an error message when the form is submitted if:
  • The input field is empty

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: Go to solution URL
• Live Site URL: url-shortener.com

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• Mobile-first workflow
• React - JS library
• Tailwind CSS - For styles

What I learned

• I learnt about controlling an element's position using relative instead of absolute/fixed positioning
• I also learn't that the copy to clipboard API doesn't work in LocalHost or insecure connections
• Also learn't some cool button hover effect useing ::before.

Continued development

There is alot to leaern about React in particular

Useful resources

As always StackOverflow came through

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @NnadiVictory25
• Twitter - @nnvictory001

Acknowledgments

To people that I learnt from on stackoverflow