Frontend Mentor - GitHub user search app solution

This is a solution to the GitHub user search 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
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
• Author

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
• Search for GitHub users by their username
• See relevant user information based on their search
• Switch between light and dark themes
• Bonus: Have the correct color scheme chosen for them based on their computer preferences. Hint: Research prefers-color-scheme in CSS.

Screenshot

Links

• Live Site URL: https://github-user-search-flax.vercel.app/

My process

Built with

• React
• Typescript
• Styled Components
• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• CSS Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Mobile-first workflow

What I learned

I learned that react-query is awesome when you need to fetch things that will not change depending on the user's input. In fact, I started a battle against react-query itself! Awesome tool, but use it with caution.

Author

• Github - @Galielo-App
• LinkdIn - Karim Yassine