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/pavanmg007/URL-shortening-API-landing-page
• Live Site URL: https://pavanmg007.github.io/URL-shortening-API-landing-page/

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Mobile-first workflow
• React - JS library
• Tailwind CSS - For styles

What I learned

I have learnt how useEffect Hook & Dependency Array works. Also go to know avout storing items in local storage in JSON

useEffect(() => {
  localStorage.setItem("links", JSON.stringify(links));
}, [links]);

Ans also learnt how to parse local storage items .

const getLocalStorage = () => {
  let links = localStorage.getItem("links");
  if (links) {
    return JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("links"));
  } else {
    return [];
  }
};

Learnt working with API Calls and handling the response.

const shortenLink = async () => {
  const res = await fetch(`https://api.shrtco.de/v2/shorten?url=${text}`);
  const data = await res.json();
  setLinks([data.result, ...links]);
  setText("");
};
shortenLink();

Author

• Website - Github
• Frontend Mentor - @pavanmg007
• Twitter - @pavanmg007