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Frontend Mentor - Todo app solution

This is a solution to the Todo app challenge on Frontend Mentor. Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building realistic projects.

Table of contents

Overview

The Challenge/User Stories

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
  • Add new todos to the list
  • Mark todos as complete
  • Delete todos from the list
  • Filter by all/active/complete todos
  • Clear all completed todos
  • Toggle light and dark mode
  • Bonus: Drag and drop to reorder items on the list
  • Bonus Trae: Edit todos from the list
  • Bonus Trae: automatically add predefined to-do items to the local storage upon Application Initialization

Screenshot

Links

My process

Built with

  • Semantic HTML5 markup
  • CSS custom properties
  • Flexbox
  • CSS Grid
  • Mobile-first workflow
  • React - JS library
  • Next.js - React framework

What I learned

The learnings were massive with this one.

  • Learned a smart way to manipulate theme switch in Next.js. Also shared solution on StackOverFlow. Solution later getting me my first big reputation.
  • Used the Window: prompt() method for the first time
  • Learned about and easily used the HTML Drag and Drop API
  • Used the grab and move cursor CSS property for the first time.
  • Also used the opacity CSS property for the first time.
  • Learned and used the DataTransfer: setData() method for the first time.
  • Learned how to get better code comments by feeding chatGPT in piecemeal.
  • Learned how to understand an existing codebase better, by feeding chatGPT in piecemeal for explanations.

Continued development

  • 3 fresh Next.js Projects, then GraphQL, Technical Writing, Open Source!

Useful resources

Stackoverflow
YouTube
Google
ChatGPT

Author

Acknowledgments

Dedicated to my son, Trevor. Who was born as project was being built. May your existence forever enable brutal consistency in my coding skill acquisition.