ChinatuL / Expenses-Chart-Component

Frontend Mentor - Expenses chart component solution

This is a solution to the Expenses chart component challenge on Frontend Mentor. Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building realistic projects.

Table of contents

• Frontend Mentor - Expenses chart component solution
  • 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 bar chart and hover over the individual bars to see the correct amounts for each day
• See the current day’s bar highlighted in a different colour to the other bars
• View the optimal layout for the content depending on their device’s screen size
• See hover states for all interactive elements on the page
• Bonus: Use the JSON data file provided to dynamically size the bars on the chart

Screenshot

• Desktop view

• Mobile view

Links

• Solution URL: Github
• Live Site URL: Live Site

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• SCSS
• Mobile-first workflow
• Chart.js - JS library

What I learned

• Integration of a JavaScript library using CDN.

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chart.js@4.2.1/dist/chart.umd.min.js"></script>

• Building and customization of bar chart with Chart.js

const myChart = new Chart(
    document.getElementById("myChart").getContext("2d"),
    config
);

Useful resources

• Build a bar chart with Chart.js - Documentation for Chart.js library

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @ChinatuL
• Twitter - @ChinatuLucia