Frontend Mentor - GitHub user search app solution

This is a solution to the GitHub user search 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
• Acknowledgments

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
• Search for GitHub users by their username
• See relevant user information based on their search
• Switch between light and dark themes
• Bonus: Have the correct color scheme chosen for them based on their computer preferences. Hint: Research prefers-color-scheme in CSS.

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: https://github.com/omonteon/github-user-search
• Live Site URL: https://github-user-search-fem.netlify.app/

My process

Built with

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

What I learned

This project helped me understand CSS grid better. While I'm not an expert yet, I certainly understand better how to build layouts using CSS Grid. I also learned how to use SVGR, to import svg files in a React project and still be able to style the svg. Finally, I did some e2e tests using Cypress.

Continued development

I would like to continue learning about CSS grid, accessibility and testing.

Useful resources

• SVGR - This helped me to import svg files easily in the project.
• Learn CSS GRID - This Scrimba course helped me understand CSS grid better.

Author

• Github - Omar Monteon
• Frontend Mentor - @omonteon