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Frontend Mentor - Age calculator app solution

This is a solution to the Age calculator 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 an age in years, months, and days after submitting a valid date through the form
  • Receive validation errors if:
    • Any field is empty when the form is submitted
    • The day number is not between 1-31
    • The month number is not between 1-12
    • The year is in the future
    • The date is invalid e.g. 31/04/1991 (there are 30 days in April)
  • 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
  • Bonus: See the age numbers animate to their final number when the form is submitted

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My process

Built with

  • Semantic HTML5 markup
  • CSS custom properties
  • Flexbox
  • Mobile-first workflow
  • Moment.js library CDN (with moment-precise-range plugin)

What I learned

Good come back to JS world, specially using a library for the first time: moment.js. Gotta keep trying to understand it better.

Continued development

  • Definititely need to inprove on my JS skills. I was lost for quite while on some basic stuff that could be avoided by practicing more.

  • Gotta keep looking at the moment.js library (and yes, I know it was kinda "descontinuated") and some other new ones later.

  • I initially try to use NPM to install the momentJS library put I find myself stuck in some MODULE stuff that really pissMeOff. So I ended up using it's CDN directly on HTML script tag.

I didn't apply any form validation to this project. Still a really hard topic to wrap my head around. Need a LITTLE more focus on that one .-.

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