Frontend Mentor - Tip calculator app solution - Yash Parekh

This is a solution to the Tip 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
  • Video
  • Screenshot
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Continued development
  • Useful resources
• Author
• Acknowledgments

Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• View the optimal layout for the app depending on their device's screen size
• See hover states for all interactive elements on the page
• Calculate the correct tip and total cost of the bill per person

Video

Tip.calculator.app.mp4

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: https://github.com/yash20010/tip-calculator#the-challenge
• Live Site URL: https://yash20010.github.io/tip-calculator/

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• Vanilla JavaScript

What I learned

Learnt about CSS outline property for input HTML elements

.people input:focus {
  outline: none;
  border: 2px solid var(--strong-cyan);
}

Continued development

• Clean javascript to reduce redundant code
• Update it to OOP style form functional style

Useful resources

• MDN - This helped me with HTML, CSS and Javascript.
• Favicon.io - This helped me create favicon quickly, for multiple devices and for free.
• Stack Overflow - This helped me lookup a lot of tiny things with one google search.

Author

• Website - Yash Parekh
• Frontend Mentor - @yash20010
• Twitter - @yash20010

Acknowledgments

• My wife and my daughter (for all their support)
• Leon Noel (who taught me everything about full stack web development)