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

• Frontend Mentor - Shortly URL shortening API Challenge solution
  • Table of contents
  • Overview
    • The challenge
    • Screenshot
      • Mobile
      • Laptop
    • 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

Mobile

Laptop

Links

• Solution URL: Git repo
• Live Site URL: Live Site

My process

Built with

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

What I learned

I learnt about using the browser api to copy a text to the clipboard.

const copyText = "Random dummy text here";
navigator.clipboard.writeText(copyText);

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @ifeoluwah21
• Twitter - @_ifeoluwaaa