Frontend Mentor - E-commerce product page solution

This is a solution to the E-commerce product page challenge on Frontend Mentor. Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building realistic projects.

Table of contents

• Overview
  • The challenge
  • Screenshots
  • 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 site depending on their device's screen size
• See hover states for all interactive elements on the page
• Open a lightbox gallery by clicking on the large product image
• Switch the large product image by clicking on the small thumbnail images
• Add items to the cart
• View the cart and remove items from it

Screenshots

Desktop screenshot

Desktop screenshot with cart open

Mobile screenshot

Mobile screenshot with cart open

Links

• Solution URL: https://github.com/james-work-account/ecommerce-product-page
• Live Site URL: https://ecommerce-product-page.vercel.app/

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Tailwind CSS
• Deployed with Vercel

What I learned

This was my first time using Tailwind for a full project, which was exciting. I still rely heavily on the docs but I've found my development speed vastly increase as I was building this project.

Starting mobile-first was key when building with Tailwind - it avoided me having to write a whole bunch of bodgey workarounds down the line. Tailwind's JIT compiler and purge options made re-compiling my code very fast (before I discovered this I was waiting a couple of seconds with every save before being able to see my progress in the browser 😳).

Continued development

I've been documenting known bugs in my Issues tab - if you find any others please feel free to raise a new Issue on there! Going forward I'd like to address these bugs and optimise my Tailwind class usage (I've still got a lot of reused code and as a React fanboy I like my reuseable components...).

Useful resources

• Tailwind docs - The "Quick search for anything" feature basically saved me in this project.
• nekoCalc's PX to REM converter - for converting the Figma file's px values into rem units to use with Tailwind classes.

Author

• I'm in a band
• Frontend Mentor - @james-work-account