dannyfongdev / app-shorten-url

Frontend Mentor - Shortly URL shortening API Challenge solution

This is a solution to the Shortly URL shortening API Challenge challenge on Frontend Mentor. Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building realistic projects.

Table of contents

• Overview

  • The challenge

• My process

  • Built with
  • What I learned

Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• View the optimal layout for the site depending on their device's screen size
• Shorten any valid URL
• See a list of their shortened links, even after refreshing the browser
• Copy the shortened link to their clipboard in a single click
• Receive an error message when the form is submitted if:
  • The input field is empty

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• Mobile-first workflow
• Nav Menu was more complicated in Mobile, so nav was desktop-first
• Svelte

What I learned

• In mobile nav needed "inset" and "height: fit-content" to make it work.
• SVG hover needed to edit SVG file: take out fill color and put back in CSS
• Svelte was easier in some ways than vanilla JS. Could have further componentized, but simple enough to keep in one component
• Had to use positioning and negative posiion and negative margin at points