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
  • Screenshot
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Continued development
  • Useful resources
• Author
• Acknowledgments

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Overview

The challenge

Users are 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

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: Solution URL
• Live Site URL: Live site URL here

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• Mobile-first workflow
• React - JS library
• Styled Components - For styles
• VsCode - Editor

What I learned

I learned how to use styled components and how to use the clipboard API.

const copyToClipboard = (e) => {
  navigator.clipboard.writeText(e.target.innerText);
};

Continued development

I want to build my own API rather than using the one provided by Frontend Mentor. I also want add authentication to the app so that users can save their links and access them from any device.

Useful resources

• Clipboard API - This helped me to copy the shortened link to the clipboard.

• Styled Components - This is an amazing library that helped me with my styles.

• React Icons - This helped me to use the icons.

• React Toastify - This helped me to show the error messages.

• React Router - This helped me to create the routes.

• React Helmet - This helped me to change the title of the page.

• Vite - This helped me to create the project.

• React Hook Form - This helped me to create the form.

Author

• Website - Abir
• Frontend Mentor - @yourusername
• Twitter - @yourusername

Acknowledgments

I want to thank Frontend Mentor for this challenge. I learned a lot from this challenge.