Frontend Mentor - Social media dashboard with theme switcher solution

This is a solution to the Social media dashboard with theme switcher 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
• See hover states for all interactive elements on the page
• Toggle color theme to their preference

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: [https://www.frontendmentor.io/solutions/theme-switch-with-javascript-j4yWa6LgZ]
• Live Site URL: [https://nostalgic-visvesvaraya-88b108.netlify.app/]

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Mobile-first workflow
• Javascript for the theme switch

What I learned

• This project expands my knowlegde of CSS Flexbox and grid
• I also learnt how to switch theme with Javascript using the Local storage
• The theme switch forced me to learn how to use CSS variables because it provides a straightforward means for the switching.

/* Using css variables */
.theme-light {
    --heading: hsl(230, 17%, 14%);
    --bg-top: hsl(225, 100%, 98%);
    --bg-down:hsl(0, 0%, 100%);
    --card-bg:  hsl(227, 47%, 96%);
    --card-hover:  hsl(228deg, 12% , 80%);
    --card-text: hsl(228, 12%, 44%);
    --overview: hsl(228, 12%, 44%);
}
.theme-dark {
    --heading: hsl(0, 0%, 100%);
    --bg-top: hsl(232, 19%, 15%);
    --bg-down: hsl(230, 17%, 14%);
    --card-bg: hsl(228, 28%, 20%);
    --card-hover: hsl(228, 12%, 44%);
    --card-text: hsl(228, 34%, 66%);
    --overview: hsl(0, 0%, 100%);
    --toggle: linear-gradient(45deg,  hsl(210, 78%, 56%), hsl(146, 68%, 55%));
}

// function to toggle between light and dark theme
function toggleTheme() {
    if (localStorage.getItem('theme') === 'theme-dark') {
            setTheme('theme-light');
    } else {
            setTheme('theme-dark');
    }
}

Continued development

• settle the nuisance of the theme switch button (done 05/05/2021)

• Practice more with CSS GRid and Flexbox

Useful resources

• Gradient border - This helped me to add a gradient border to the instagram card. CSS Tricks is pretty good for anyone trying to work around CSS.
• Theme Switch - This is an amazing article which helped me finally understand how to switch theme with JS. I'd recommend it to anyone still learning this concept.

Author

• Website - Oluwakemi Omoyeni
• Frontend Mentor - @Captressketh001
• Twitter - @capketh

Acknowledgments

• I will like to acknowledge the input of Praise Adeleke, a colleague and a friend.