Frontend Mentor - Interactive rating component solution

This is a solution to the Interactive rating component 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

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
• Select and submit a number rating
• See the "Thank you" card state after submitting a rating

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: Johnsonworld Interactive-Rating Solution
• Live Site URL: Johnsonworld Interactive-Rating Live Site

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• Mobile-first workflow
• Javascript

What I learned

Feeling pretty comfortable in HTML & CSS, this was my first HTML, CSS & Javascript challenge - so the integration process was a good experience.

I struggle trying to match the colors to the preview images, I think due to my monitor settings. Next time I'll try upgrading so I can get the Figma files and have more certainty.

CSS custom radio buttons - should have done the star selectors with this but couldn't get them to customize correctly. I think it was because I started out just using buttons and then tried to convert to radio buttons. If I did it over I'd start fresh and try to do the custom radio buttons, taking care of that functionality for only allowing one button to be clicked at a time. Ended up having to do that in JS.

My use of Git/Github getting much more consistent and clean!

Continued development

• Need to get much more practice in Javascript fundamentals particularly Get/Set and Document methods.
• It's not pretty right now - but it works. Would like to write cleaner and more efficient code.