Odohofre/news-homepage

This is a solution to the frontend mentor's challenge

Frontend Mentor - News homepage solution

This is a solution to the News homepage 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
  • Useful resources
• Author

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Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• View the optimal layout for the interface depending on their device's screen size
• See hover and focus states for all interactive elements on the page

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: Github repo
• Live Site URL: Live Site

My process

Built with

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

What I learned

• I learnt how to use useRef and useEffect hooks
• I learnt how to close a components wheneve I click outside of it.

To see how you can add code snippets, see below:

 const handleClickOutside = (event) => {
    if (menuRef.current && !menuRef.current.contains(event.target)) {
      handleLinkClick();
    }
  };

Useful resources

• NEW ReactJs docs
• CSS-TRICKS blog on CSS Grid - This is an amazing article which helped me finally understand CSS Grid. I'd recommend it to anyone still learning this concept.
• ChatGPT - This helped me code better

Author

• Website - Bright Odohofre
• Frontend Mentor - @Odohofre
• Twitter - @B_Odohofre