In this exercise I learned a lot about Flexbox by followed the directions outlined by Ohans Emmanual. This exercise covered the basics of what Flexbox is and tied core concepts together by creating a static frontend for a music application using Flexbox.
With a history of backend development roles, I came to realize that to become a better engineer I needed to learn more about frontend development. To most individuals, the frontend is the product, and I was always nervous about sharing examples of my work publicly because of my limited frontend development skills. After hearing about Brandon Morelli's experience, I decided that it was about time I learn more about frontend development.
Ohans does a great job at explaining what Flexbox is, what problems it solves, what the tool will replace, and why it isn’t used everywhere just yet. The tutorial gave plenty of examples and really came together while building the music player application. I particularly enjoyed how Ohans left it to readers to implement the footer code. While it was somewhat challenging to get the CSS right, with a bit of backtracking I finished the exercise and am very happy with the end results! I would gladly recommend this exercise to a friend that is interested in learning more about Flexbox.