Frontend Mentor - Advice generator app solution

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

Table of contents

• Overview
  • The challenge
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • 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
• Generate a new piece of advice by clicking the dice icon

Links

• Solution URL
• Live Site

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Vanilla JavaScript
• CSS Grid
• Mobile-first workflow

What I learned

I chose this project to practice getting data from an API and the handling of errors in this process.

I decided to add a light/dark mode theme switch and also a typewriter text effect to learn new skills.

Useful resources

• CSS-TRICKS Complete guide to Dark Mode - This helped me to understand the different options to implement a theme togler and also how to combine the user's color scheme preference and a theme toggler.
• CSS-TRICKS How to scale SVG - I was looking for a way to scale the svg based on the screen size, rather than using two different images as provided in the design. The solution, to define a viewBox attribute in the svg!
• w3 schools Typing effect - Explains how to create the typing effect I've used for the advice.

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @cr1deg0