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
• Acknowledgments

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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
• Bonus: Have the correct color scheme chosen for them based on their computer preferences. Hint: Research prefers-color-scheme in CSS.

Screenshot

Links

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

My process

Built with

• React - JS library
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid

What I learned

This was my first React App without a tutorial code-along. It was a very interesting journey. I can say I fully grok props and state and how the components interact with eachother. I learned how to fully utilise css custom properties and implement a theme changer. This aspect of the challenge definetly stumped me the most. The solution ended up being pretty simple compared to some of the tutorials / solutions I came across online while researching the problem.

Continued development

I plan on continuing my React journey and try to focus more on functional components rather then class components. I learned state using Class components so felt most comfotable implementating this solution use class components. However I notice that it does have some limitations.

Author

• Website - Joe Irvine
• Frontend Mentor - @TheShonuff
• Twitter - @TheDevShonuff