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

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: Solution on Frontend Mentor
• Live Site URL: URL Shortener API Master

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Mobile-first workflow

What I learned

I tried some new things in this project and one of them was placing media queries after each section instead of adding them at them end in a bulk. Also learned about basics of Application Programming Interface, on how to make GET/POST requests using the shortcode API to shorten long links.

Continued development

I am looking forward to make this revisiting the project and integrating an authentication functionality using Firebase and Mongo DB for storing shortened links.

Useful resources

• CSS Grid Guide - This helped me as a reference for CSS Grid Properties
• CSS Flexbox Guide - This helped me as a reference for CSS Flexbox Properties
• Shortcode API Documentation - This helped me in getting information about Shortcode API.

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @suraj-singh127
• Twitter - @SurajSi75026934