Frontend Mentor - Clock app solution

This is a solution to the Clock 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
  • Continued development
  • Useful resources
• Author

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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
• View the current time and location information based on their IP address
• View additional information about the date and time in the expanded state
• Be shown the correct greeting and background image based on the time of day they're visiting the site
• Generate random programming quotes by clicking the refresh icon near the quote

Screenshot

Links

• Live Site URL: Vercel

My process

Built with

• React - JS library
• Chakra UI -Frontend Framework
• Typescript
• Flexbox
• Mobile-first workflow

Continued development

I want to continue to get better with Typescript and learn other Frontend Libraries. I also want to delve in the world of state mangagement.

Useful resources

• How to control the size of fixed positioned items - This StackOverflow post helped me understand how to use fixed positioned items in my code.
• Understanding Datetime - This is an amazing article which helped me finally understand Datetime in JS. I'd recommend it to anyone still learning this concept.
• Converting Time

Author

• Website - Rodderick Garland