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This is a solution to the Shortly URL shortening API Challenge challenge on Frontend Mentor

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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.

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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

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Links

My process

  • First Created the components without functionality.
  • Added Functionality

Built with

  • Semantic HTML5 markup
  • CSS custom properties
  • Flexbox
  • CSS Grid
  • Mobile-first workflow
  • React - JS library
  • Next.js - React framework
  • TypeScript - TypeScript

What I learned

  const copy = async () => {
    await navigator.clipboard.writeText(text);
    alert('Text copied');
  }
}

Continued development

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