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Frontend Mentor Challenge Solution URL Shortening API
https://github.com/zun-liang/fem-url-shortening-api

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Frontend Mentor Challenge Solution URL Shortening API

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/zun-liang/fem-url-shortening-api
Owner: zun-liang
Created: 2023-08-12T19:35:54.000Z (over 1 year ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2024-01-11T09:43:25.000Z (10 months ago)
Last Synced: 2024-01-11T12:54:08.863Z (10 months ago)
Topics: css, html, javascript, react, styled-components, vite
Language: JavaScript
Homepage: https://zun-liang.github.io/fem-url-shortening-api/
Size: 2.71 MB
Stars: 0
Watchers: 1
Forks: 0
Open Issues: 0
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md

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README

        # Frontend Mentor - Shortly URL shortening API Challenge solution

This is a solution to the [Shortly URL shortening API Challenge challenge on Frontend Mentor](https://www.frontendmentor.io/challenges/url-shortening-api-landing-page-2ce3ob-G). Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building realistic projects.

## Table of contents

- [Overview](#overview)

  - [The challenge](#the-challenge)

  - [Screenshot](#screenshot)

  - [Links](#links)

- [My process](#my-process)

  - [Built with](#built-with)

  - [What I learned](#what-i-learned)

  - [Continued development](#continued-development)

  - [Useful resources](#useful-resources)

- [Author](#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: [here](https://www.frontendmentor.io/solutions/url-shortening-api-using-react-and-styledcomponents-1CmillSnIB)

- Live Site URL: [here](https://zun-liang.github.io/fem-url-shortening-api/)

## My process

### Built with

- Semantic HTML5 markup

- CSS custom properties

- Flexbox

- CSS Grid

- Mobile-first workflow

- [React](https://reactjs.org/) - JS library

- [Styled Components](https://styled-components.com/) - For styles

### What I learned

- vertical-align: baseline/top/middle/bottom/sub/text-top...

- input type="url"

- toSpliced()

- React Dev Tools

- localStorage

- navigator clipboard

- useRef

### Continued development

#### Ways of React Data Fetching

- axios

- async/await

- useFetch

- React Query

#### Advanced React

- useCallBack

- useMemo

- React Error Boundaries

### Useful resources

#### HTML Related

- [input type="url"](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/url)

#### CSS Related

- [Input placeholder vertical align](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38854712/input-placeholder-vertical-align)

- [Preventing a Grid Blowout](https://css-tricks.com/preventing-a-grid-blowout/)

- [White space on top and bottom when scrolling on mobile](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55455568/white-space-on-top-and-bottom-when-scrolling-on-mobile)

  Fixed this bug by setting body background colors to match header's and footer's.

- [100vh problem with iOS Safari](https://417e-221-193-119-247.ngrok-free.app)

  I have noticed many times that the projects I worked on before had difficulty completely scrolling up/down to the end on my iPhone. I did some research and found this bug is caused by "100vh". Then I found this article. In the updated code, I fixed this bug using the code provided in this article and it solved my problem!

- [Document: documentElement property](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/documentElement)

- [CSSStyleDeclaration: setProperty() method](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSSStyleDeclaration/setProperty)

#### Javascript Related

- [Check if an URL is valid or not using Regular Expression](https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/check-if-an-url-is-valid-or-not-using-regular-expression/)

- [Array.prototype.toSpliced()](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/toSpliced)

- [Learn how to handle JavaScript Errors with Try, Throw, Catch, & Finally](https://codeburst.io/learn-how-to-handle-javascript-errors-with-try-throw-catch-finally-83b4f9ef8c6f)

- [Using .then(), .catch(), .finally() to Handle Errors in Javascript Promises](https://lucymarmitchell.medium.com/using-then-catch-finally-to-handle-errors-in-javascript-promises-6de92bce3afc)

- [JavaScript ‘throw new Error’ vs ‘throw Error’ vs ‘throw something’](https://www.codingem.com/javascript-throw-new-error-vs-throw-error/)

#### React Related

- [How to Use React Dev Tools – With Example Code and Videos](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-react-dev-tools/)

- [I’ve updated the state, but logging gives me the old value](https://react.dev/reference/react/useState#ive-updated-the-state-but-logging-gives-me-the-old-value)

- [Rendering Lists](https://react.dev/learn/rendering-lists)

- [How to Use localStorage with React Hooks to Set and Get Items](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-localstorage-with-react-hooks-to-set-and-get-items/)

- [Understanding the Difference Between Named and Default Exports in React](https://betterprogramming.pub/understanding-the-difference-between-named-and-default-exports-in-react-2d253ca9fc22)

- [Understanding React’s useEffect cleanup function](https://blog.logrocket.com/understanding-react-useeffect-cleanup-function/)

#### Web APIs Related

- [Navigator: clipboard property](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/clipboard)

- [Clipboard: writeText() method](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Clipboard/writeText)

- [Local Storage vs Session Storage vs Cookie](https://www.xenonstack.com/insights/local-vs-session-storage-vs-cookie)

- [Storage: key() method](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Storage/key)

- [What’s The Difference Between Cache And Cookies](https://medium.com/techblogout/whats-the-difference-between-cache-and-cookies-53e7f4f094bb)

- ~~[shrtcode API Documentation](https://shrtco.de/docs)~~ not working anymore

- [TinyURL Development Document](https://tinyurl.com/app/dev)

- [Public APIs TinyUrl](https://publicapis.io/tinyurl-api)

#### Testing Related

- [Local Testing on an iPhone](https://www.joshwcomeau.com/blog/local-testing-on-an-iphone/)

- [ngrok](https://ngrok.com/)

  Installing on mac using homebrew works better for me.

## Author

- Website - [Zun Liang](https://zunldev.com/)

- GitHub - [@zun-liang](https://github.com/zun-liang)

- Frontend Mentor - [@zun-liang](https://www.frontendmentor.io/profile/zun-liang)

- freeCodeCamp - [@zun-liang](https://www.freecodecamp.org/zun-liang)