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

Good looking Advice Generator with React, Axios and Tailwind CSS

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: Here
• Live Site URL: Here

My process

Mainly, my progress is in the develop branch, Here

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• Flexbox
• Mobile-first workflow
• PostCSS - CSS-JS Tool
• React - JS library
• Tailwind CSS - For styles
• Axios - For fetch
• Axios-Hooks - For loading and error states

What I learned

-Use of arbitrary properties with Tailwind CSS -Manage states with Axios Hooks library -Context, useContext and useMemo hook

Continued development

Improve accessibility and semantic HTML for a better experience.

Useful resources

• CSS Glow Generator - This helped me making a glow effect when the dice button is hovered.
• Tailwind guide for adding custom styles - This will be crucial for me when making the advice divider change image and size, also for adding other colors.
• Article about React Context and Hook guide - With this I learned about the manage of context, passed values and useContext hook in child components.
• Article about useMemo - For memoizing Context values and improving performance.
• Axios Hooks Github page - This helped me while learning and practicing about the states of a fetch request with Axios.

Author

• Github - Nicolas Orozco Davila
• Frontend Mentor - @Nicolas-Orozco