lucas-sk / interactive-comments-section-fm

Frontend Mentor - Interactive comments section solution

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

Table of contents

• Overview
  • How to start
  • The challenge
  • Screenshot
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Continued development
  • Useful resources

Overview

How to start

To start the project, you need to install the dependencies with the command yarn or npm install and You can also start the fake API with the command yarn api or npm run api. The fake API will start on the port 5000. After that, you can start the project with the command yarn start or npm start. The project will start on the port 3000.

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
• Create, Read, Update, and Delete comments and replies
• Upvote and downvote comments
• Bonus: If you're building a purely front-end project, use localStorage to save the current state in the browser that persists when the browser is refreshed.
• Bonus: Instead of using the createdAt strings from the data.json file, try using timestamps and dynamically track the time since the comment or reply was posted.

Screenshot

Links

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Mobile-first workflow
• React - JS library
• TailwindCSS - For styles
• shadcn/ui - For Components UI
• TanStack Query - For state management
• date-fns - For date formatting
• json-server - For fake API
• react-use - For hooks

What I learned

I learned how to use the useQuery and useMutation hooks from TanStack Query, and also how to use the useMedia hook from react-use to verify media query and add styles for media specify. I also learned how to use the json-server to create a fake API for the project. also learned how to use the date-fns to format the date. and how to use shadcn/ui to create a beautiful UI.

Continued development

I want to continue learning about the use of the useQuery and useMutation hooks from TanStack Query, and also the use some editor WYSIWYG for the comment and reply input. i also want to learn testing my application with vitest and React Testing Library.

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Useful resources

• Talvez você não precise de estados globais no React (HTTP State) - This helped me for understanding how to use the useQuery and useMutation hooks from TanStack Query. I'd recommend it to anyone still learning this concept.
• PARE de usar o useEffect para fazer API calls! React Query + Next.js - This is an amazing article which helped me finally understand how to use TanStack Query. I'd recommend it to anyone still learning this concept.