Frontend Mentor - Calculator app solution

This is a solution to the Calculator app 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
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Continued development
• Author

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Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• See the size of the elements adjust based on their device's screen size
• Perform mathmatical operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
• Adjust the color theme based on their preference
• Bonus: Have their initial theme preference checked using prefers-color-scheme and have any additional changes saved in the browser

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: https://github.com/Jakelanghel/calculator-app
• Live Site URL: https://jakelanghel.github.io/calculator-app/

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• Mobile-first workflow

What I learned

I learend alot about working with flex box, using classes in java script, changing css variables using javascript, and using switch statements. I used flexbox because I wanted more practice using it and plan to rebuild this app using css grid once in the future.

Continued development

Im currently taking a class on css grid and plan to rebuild this app using grid once i finish. I realy liked using classes in javascript and plan on learing alot more about using them.

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @JakeLanghel