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
• 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: Solution
• Live Site URL: Advice Generator App

 

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Vanilla JS
• Advice Slip API

 

What I learned

• HTML
  • Don't forget the following!!!

  <noscript>JavaScript disabled</noscript>

 

• CSS
  • To create the glow effect for the dice upon hover, I used a box shadow...

  #diceBox:hover{box-shadow: 0.1vh 0.1vh 4vh 0.75vh hsl(150, 100%, 66%);}

  • I also learnt that you can 'justify-self' and 'align-self' for individual 'child' elements

 

• JS
  • I learnt to use an API! ('no-cache' was vital for randomisation otherwise the browser would cache the response and lead to the same advice being generated again and again

  return await fetch("https://api.adviceslip.com/advice", {
        method: 'GET',
        cache: "no-cache"
    })

 

Continued development

• I would like to practise working with APIs more

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Author

• Website - Man Ting Chan
• Frontend Mentor - @M-Chan