Frontend Mentor - News homepage

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

Difficulty: junior

Deployment status

Table of contents

• Overview
  • The challenge
  • Links
• My process
  • Build with
  • What I learned
  • Continued Development
  • Useful resources
• Author

Overview

The challenge

To build the news homepage according to the given designs as close as possible. The users should be able to:

• View the optimal layout for the interface depending on their device's screen size
• See hover and focus states for all interactive elements on the page

Links

• Solution URL: open GitHub repository
• Live Site URL: open Netlify page

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS (BEM naming convention used, see getbem.com for more information)
• Flexbox
• Grid
• Mobile-first workflow
• Optimized for both Open Graph (Facebook) and Twitter Cards
• Node.js - Open source and multiplatform JavaScript runtime environment
• NPM - Package Manager for Node JavaScript platform
• Parcel - Zero configuration build tool / module bundler to automate workflow
• Sass - CSS Preprocessor (in collaboration with Parcel)
• GitHub - Technological platform based on Git
• Git - Free and open source distributed version control system
• Netlify - Free service to host static webpages and web applications

What I learned

1. Always use semantic compliant-standard HTML
2. To keep testing the application for Web Accessibility
3. To spend time looking at the details of the designs to create the application as accurately as possible
4. How to create a (mobile) navigation using progressive enhancement (a11y)
5. How to implement a complex layout with CSS Grid
6. How to reduce the CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift) of the webpage (Core Web Vital according to Google)

Continued development

The way I want to continue to develop myself is by focusing on laying out a proper foundation of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This so I can build quality websites for clients by just using the core languages of the Web. At the present, I am working on the above things by going through (interactive) articles on the MDN Web Docs (see chapter Useful resources).

Another way I want to improve my knowledge of these subjects is to do more challenges that Frontend Mentor is offering, starting at the lowest level, and building that up to the more advanced ones.

Besides the above, I want to continue to develop myself by using several tools more often to improve my workflow. and spend less time doing things that can be automated.

A few tools that I will start using more often are:

1. Gulp
2. Parcel
3. Git
4. GitHub
5. Netlify (in combination with Continues Deployment)

I will learn the above points in between but do not want to focus too much on those at the moment.

As soon as I am capable of creating quality websites with the core languages of the Web, I will start to learn JavaScript libraries and frameworks. Both of these change over time, so I do not want to spend my time on those before I have a solid understanding of prior mentioned languages.

Useful resources

• Transfonter - Has been used to convert the downloaded font files to woff and woff2 (most recent font formats, supported in all major browsers), and generate the corresponding @font-face css rulesets
• Frontend Mentor - News homepage challenge on Frontend Mentor

Author

• LinkedIn - Yari Morcus (must be logged in)
• Frontend Mentor - @YariMorcus