Simple Interactive Rating Component

This is a solution to the Interactive rating component challenge on Frontend Mentor. I have been using Frontend Mentor challenges to help improving my coding, especially design skills by building realistic projects.

Table of contents

• Overview
  • The challenge
  • Screenshots
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Useful resources

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" state after submitting a rating

Screenshots

First-State

Rating-State

Thank-You-State

My process

Built with

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

What I learned

While working through this project, I preferred manipulating the DOM with editing the relevant HTML class attribute and CSS property as hidden/visible with Javascript code rather than removing the DOM nodes and replacing them with the new ones. I learned doing so is a useful approach to have a lightweight workflow when it comes to extensive applications (i.e. websites)

Here are some useful code snippets from my work:

<div class="second-container hidden">

.hidden {
    display: none;
}

submitButton.addEventListener("click", () => {
    secondContainer.classList.remove("hidden");
    firstContainer.style.display = "none";
});

Useful resources

• MDN Javascript Pathway - MDN's frontend developer pathway really helped me about understanding what the DOM is and how to manipulate it properly.
• css-tricks.com - This comprehensive site is an amaizing guide for getting better insight about CSS3. It enlightened me about the way how Flexbox layout concept is used.