README.md

URL shortening API page

This is a solution to the URL shortening API Challenge on Frontend Mentor. This landing page integrates with the shrtcode API, which is used to shorten any valid URL through a simple query. It's open-source and it's completely free.

Table of contents

• Overview
  • Screenshot
  • Links
• Process
  • Built with
  • Useful resources
• Author

Overview

Users should be able to:

• View the optimal layout for the site depending on their device's screen size
• Shorten any valid URL
• See a list of their shortened links, even after refreshing the browser
• Copy the shortened link to their clipboard in a single click
• Receive an error message when the form is submitted if:
  • The input field is empty
  • URL is invalid

Screenshot

Desktop and mobile version of URL Shortening Page.

Links

• Live Site URL: URL Shortening Page

Process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS variables
• Flexbox
• Asynchronous JavaScript
• Regular expressions
• localStorage
• Mobile-first workflow

Useful resources

• Adding ::after horizontal lines - This helped me add cyan horizontal lines after cards in Info section. I really like this concept and I will use it going forward.
• Getting current width of the screen - This helped me get my current screen width I needed for manipulation of links' length.

Author

• GitHub - https://github.com/jelenkoo10
• Frontend Mentor - @jelenkoo10
• LinkedIn - Veljko Jelenković