Frontend Mentor - Social media dashboard with theme switcher solution

This is a solution to the Social media dashboard with theme switcher 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
  • Useful resources
• Author

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
• Toggle color theme to their preference

Screenshot

Links

• Solution Page on Frontend Mentor
• Live Website

My process

Built with

• React - JS library
• Styled Components - For styles
• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid

What I learned

• Basic structure of using styled-components with React:

  // App --> React Component --> Styled Component
  export function Card() {
    return (
      <StyledCard>
        <div className="card-top"></div>
        /* more divs */
      </StyledCard>
    );
  }

  App structure:

  

What I learned

• Quick intro to styled-components (YouTube playlist)

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @vietan0
• Linkedin - @vietan