Frontend Mentor - Advice generator app solution

This is a solution to the Advice generator 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
  • Continued development
  • Useful resources
• 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
• Generate a new piece of advice by clicking the dice icon

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: Github solution URL
• Live Site URL: Live site URL

My process

Built with

• JSX
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• Mobile-first workflow
• React - JS library
• TailwindCSS - CSS framework

What I learned

I learned how to use fetch API and some react hooks to fetch and display data from an endpoint.

Some code snippet:

  // state for updating advice(s)
  const [slip, setSlip] = useState({
    id: "117",
    advice:
      "It is easy to sit up and take notice, what's difficult is getting up and taking action",
  });
  // indicates loading
  const [loading, setLoading] = useState(false);

  // generate new advice
  const generateAdvice = useCallback(() => {
    setLoading(true);
    fetch(API_URL, api)
      .then(resp => resp.json())
      .then(data => {
        setSlip(data.slip)
        setLoading(false);
      })
      .catch(err => {
        console.log(err);
        setLoading(false);
      });
  }, [setSlip]);

  useEffect(() => {
    generateAdvice();
  }, [generateAdvice]);

Continued development

I look forward to learning and working with TypeScript

Useful resources

• Learn REST APIs - I understood better how RESTful API works after learning and practicing with some interactive examples.

Author

• LinkedIn - Emerenini Cynthia Ngozi
• Frontend Mentor - @cindyeme
• Twitter - @CynthiaENgozi1