Frontend Mentor - Interactive comments section solution

This is a solution to the Interactive comments section challenge on Frontend Mentor.

Table of contents

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

Overview

The challenge

• This was a fun and challenge and a great way to test my skills, particularly with CSS. The challenge provides images of the designs that I am to replicate and using

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
• Create, Read, Update, and Delete comments and replies
• Upvote and downvote comments
• Bonus: If you're building a purely front-end project, use localStorage to save the current state in the browser that persists when the browser is refreshed. (TODO)
• Bonus: Instead of using the createdAt strings from the data.json file, try using timestamps and dynamically track the time since the comment or reply was posted.

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: Solution
• Live Site URL: Live Site

My process

• I first sketched out the app with React components
• Then I used flexbox to position components where they'd roughly need to be
• Next I added and applied the styles, using the project's style guide
• Following that, my focus was adding the functionality of the site (nested comments, adding new comments, updating and deleting, replying)
• Finally I spent time adjusting the padding, margin and layouts in general, often consulting the provided image files

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• React - JS library

What I learned

• While working on this project I've been able to solidify my knowledge of flexbox and gain a better grasp of how it works and how to use it to achieve a responsive layout.
• I learned how to use the JS Date object to calculate elapsed time
• I learned how to use recursion in order to render nested React components (the nested comment structure)

Continued development

• One thing to add would be the use of localStorage in order to save the current state and have it persist even when the page is refreshed.
• Another thing I would do is add further breakpoints for the responsive layouts, as the project only specifies 375px for mobile and 1440px for desktop as a requirement.

Author

• Website - Coming Soon!
• Frontend Mentor - @TheDilp