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: https://github.com/Esosek/url-shorten
• Live Site URL: https://magnificent-paletas-51031f.netlify.app/

My process

Built with

• Astro - Web framework
• React - JS library
• TailwindCSS - CSS framework
• Typescript - Programming language built on Javascript
• Ulvis.net - URL shortener API

What I learned

• Some CSS tricks (Loading bar, image overflow)
• More Typescript types (error handling)

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @Esosek