Frontend Mentor - QR code component solution

This is a solution to the QR code component challenge on Frontend Mentor. Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building realistic projects.

Table of contents

• Overview
  • Screenshot
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Continued development
• Author

Overview

This is a simple QR code card linking to Front-end Mentors

Screenshot

Links

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

My process

• Using BEM I identified containers and pieces for easy styling
• I took advantage of custom CSS properties to make the card easy to update
• I then started at the root element and built the card from the background out towards the user.

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• Mobile-first workflow

What I learned

This project was a project that I used in order to strengthen my grasp of semantic HTML, CSS, BEM Architecture, and Custom CSS Properties.

I learned that by using custom properties in css I can add an alpha channel to values, but only if the property that I am adding them to does not include the hsl() format. Instead it must be the values themself.

:root {
  --hsl-values: 218, 44%, 22%;
  --hsl: hsl(var(--hsl-values));
  --hsla: hsla(var(--hsl-values), 0.25)
}

Continued development

In the future I plan on incorporating SCSS into my design process to speed up my workflow.

Author

• Website - Remy Dale
• Frontend Mentor - @TheRemyD
• Twitter - @TheOnlyRemyD