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
  • Useful resources
• 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

• Solution URL: https://github.com/lucaslinyker/advice-generator
• Live Site URL: https://lucaslinyker.github.io/advice-generator/

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• Mobile-first workflow
• BEM - For arquiteture CSS

What I learned

I learned how to use the fetch API to get data from an external API. I also learned how to handle errors.

Below you can see the code:

try {
    const response = await fetch(apiURL);
    if (!response.ok) {
      throw new Error(`Error ${response.status} in the request!`);
    }
    const data = await response.json();
    codeAdvice.innerText = data.slip.id;
    textAdvice.innerText = `"${data.slip.advice}"`;
  } catch (error) {
    console.error(error);
    codeAdvice.innerText = error.message;
    textAdvice.innerText = "Try again!";
    codeAdvice.style.color = "red"
    textAdvice.style.color = "red"
  }

Continued development

I want to continue learning about the fetch API and how to handle errors. I also want to learn more about the async/await and promises.

Useful resources

• Fetch api Mdn - This helped me to understand how to use the fetch API.

Author

• GitHub - lucaslinyker
• Frontend Mentor - @lucaslinyker
• Instagram - @lucas_linyker

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