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
• 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

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: Front End Mentor
• Live Site URL: Vercel

My process

Built with

• Flexbox
• Mobile-first workflow
• React - JS library
• Create React App - Setup
• Axios - HTTP Client
• Styled Components - For styles

What I learned

// react with jsx
const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById("root"));
root.render(<h1>Hello, world!</h1>);

// axios with async/await
async function getData() {
  try {
    const response = await axios.get("url");
    console.log(response);
  } catch (error) {
    console.error(error);
  }
}

// styled-components
const Button = styled.button`
  background-color: hsl(180, 66%, 49%);
`;

Author

• Website - El Bhiruni
• Frontend Mentor - @elbhiruni