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
• Author

Overview

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

• Live Site URL: Live page

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• CSS pseudo-elements
• Flexbox

What I learned

• I thing this is the first time I use the <picture> element while trying to set those seperator svg's, really awesome.

• I was getting really frustrated by the API request been the same after hitting the dice button and I start to think about the browser cache. Ended-up finding something called 'Cache busting', some kinda of unique id to the URL, so when we do the request the browser think it's a brand new one. So, cache busting is like giving each request a new and different name, which ensures that you always get the freshest data from the server and avoids using outdated cached information.

Continued development

• In this project I was using XMLHttpResquest() function. I should be confortable on using the Fetch API for the next projects.

Author

• Website - In progress...
• Frontend Mentor - @rwxganta
• Twitter - @rwxganta