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

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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

Screenshot

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Links

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• Live Site URL: Add live site URL here

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Mobile-first workflow
• React - JS library
• Styled Components - For styles

What I learned

I learnt alot during the development of this project, I was able practice and also increase my knowledge on react and problem solving using react.

<h1>Some HTML code I'm proud of</h1>

.shortened-links-box {
  display: flex;
  /* display: none; */
  flex-direction: row;
  justify-content: space-between;
  align-items: center;
  padding: 20px;
  height: 70px;
  width: 80%;
  background-color: hsl(0, 0%, 100%);
  margin: 0 auto 10px auto;
  border-radius: 5px;
}

function copyCurrentLinks(id, e, item, newLink) {
        let newLoadingStates = [...loading];
        newLoadingStates[id] = true;
        setLoading(newLoadingStates)
        const copyToClipboard = text => navigator.clipboard
            ?.writeText && navigator.clipboard.writeText(text);

        setTimeout(() => {
            copyToClipboard(newLink).then(() => {
                let newLoadingStates = [...loading];
                newLoadingStates[id] = false;
                setLoading(newLoadingStates);
            });
        }, 1000)

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Continued development

I would really love to improve,develop,and increase my knowledge on react and also build more project with it.

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @DOOMSDAY1
• Twitter - @Sulaiman_Ife