ttsoares/urlshorter

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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.

Table of contents

• Overview
  • The challenge
  • Screenshot
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Continued development
  • Useful resources
• Author
• Acknowledgments

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

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: Add solution URL here
• Live Site URL: Add live site URL here

My process

Built with

• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Mobile-first workflow
• React - JS library
• Next.js - React framework
• React Hook Form - Fine grain form management
• tailwindcss/forms - Provides a basic reset for form styles

What I learned

• A lot of exercises about relative/absolute CSS positioning.
• How to really control SVGs properties with Tailwind classes.

Continued development

• Again this solution is not a "fluid design", it really only looks good at 1440px and 375px. It would be a scary challenge to make it nice in all resolutions...

Useful resources

• Documentation of the React Hook Form was very helpful.

Author

• Website - Thomas Tschoepke Soares
• Frontend Mentor - @ttsoares

Acknowledgments

• A lot of reading in the TailwindCSS documentation !