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Frontend Mentor - Advice generator app solution

This is a solution to the Advice generator app challenge on Frontend Mentor. Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building realistic projects.

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Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

  • View the optimal layout for the app depending on their device's screen size
  • See hover states for all interactive elements on the page
  • Generate a new piece of advice by clicking the dice icon

Screenshot

Screenshot 2022-08-31 at 12-07-43 Frontend Mentor Advice generator app

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My process

Built with

  • Semantic HTML5 markup
  • CSS custom properties
  • Flexbox
  • CSS Grid
  • Vanilla JS
  • Advice Slip API

 

What I learned

  • HTML
    • Don't forget the following!!!
    <noscript>JavaScript disabled</noscript>

 

  • CSS
    • To create the glow effect for the dice upon hover, I used a box shadow...
    #diceBox:hover{box-shadow: 0.1vh 0.1vh 4vh 0.75vh hsl(150, 100%, 66%);}
    • I also learnt that you can 'justify-self' and 'align-self' for individual 'child' elements

 

  • JS
    • I learnt to use an API! ('no-cache' was vital for randomisation otherwise the browser would cache the response and lead to the same advice being generated again and again
    return await fetch("https://api.adviceslip.com/advice", {
      method: 'GET',
      cache: "no-cache"
  })

 

Continued development

  • I would like to practise working with APIs more

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