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
  • Useful resources
• Author

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 Solution Screenshot

Links

• Live site here
• My Frontend Mentor solution here

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• React - JS library
• Redux - JS library
• ShrtCode - API

Useful resources

• Font Awesome - I really liked this website to get some icons and will use it going forward.

• W3Schools - It's very useful. I'd recommend it to anyone still learning about programming.

• RegExr - An online tool to learn, build, & test Regular Expressions(RegEx / RegExp). I recommend it.

• Frontend Mentor - This website is really useful to put your frontend skills to test and practices. It also give you some resources to begin a challenge like this one.

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @GleXan14