Frontend Mentor - GitHub user search app solution

This is a solution to the GitHub user search app 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

Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• View the optimal layout for the app depending on their device's screen size
• See hover states for all interactive elements on the page
• Search for GitHub users by their username
• See relevant user information based on their search
• Switch between light and dark themes
• Have the correct color scheme chosen for them based on their computer preferences.

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: GitHub
• Live Site URL: GitHub Pages

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Mobile-first workflow
• Gulp
• SCSS
• BEM

What I learned

I learnt how to create breakpoints and extends with SCSS. I practiced JS and API skills.

Continued development

I am still not enough compfortable with JS so next weeks I plan to focus on learning good practices and modern Javascript.

Useful resources

• CSS tricks1 - This helped me scale svg image.
• CSS tricks - by this article I learnt about managing breakpoints with mixins
• CSS tricks - With this article I learnt about styling ::placeholder pseudo element and :placeholder-shown pseudo class
• Stackoverflow - by this article I found a solution how to convert ISO date format from API data into the format given in figma file.

Author

• GitHub - Joanna Łapa
• Frontend Mentor - [@JoannaLapa]https://www.frontendmentor.io/profile/JoannaLapa)
• Twitter - @jlapa_apa