Frontend Mentor - Loopstudios landing page solution

This is a solution to the Loopstudios landing page 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

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

Screenshot

Links

• Live Site URL: https://ja-loopstudios.netlify.app/

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• CSS Grid
• React - JS library

What I learned

I found this really cool React responsive module. I used it to conditionally return an array for the tiles section based on if the user is in mobile version or not. If I had done this without react I would have had to add all the pictures by making rules for each tile in CSS, then rewriting all those rules in the mobile version. So finally I have saved time by using React.

const PictureArray = () => {
  const mobile = useMediaQuery({ query: "(max-width: 375px)" });
  return mobile ? mobile_projects : projects;
};

I also learned more about responsive design. I know the technical concepts of how to make a design responsive, but I don't know how to design responsively. For example I spent a long time on the grid because flex-box made it look weird at larger sizes and making the space between the tiles resize made it look sloppy. Eventually I settled with changing the number of columns based on screen size.

Continued development

As mentioned above, I want to get better at responsive design. I also want to get better at React. I learned a lot about the framework in this project, and I'm excited to learn more.