Frontend Mentor - E-commerce product page solution

This is a solution to the E-commerce product page 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
  • Useful resources
• Author

Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• View the optimal layout for the site depending on their device's screen size
• See hover states for all interactive elements on the page
• Open a lightbox gallery by clicking on the large product image
• Switch the large product image by clicking on the small thumbnail images
• Add items to the cart
• View the cart and remove items from it

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL
• Live Site URL

My process

Built with

• React - JS library
• TypeScript - JS Superset
• Redux Toolkit - State Management
• Material UI - UI Components and Styling

What I learned

My goal for this project was a take a realistic project and use it to learn both Material UI and Redux Toolkit. I learned a great deal about both in my implementation of this e-commerce app, including theme customizations, styled components, and Redux data flow.

Useful resources

• React / Material-UI: Use variable reference in custom theme - Provides a process for using theme palette customizations inside of styleOverrides by creating multiple themes and merging them into one.
• MUI 5 styled() pass props along with theme object - Explanation for passing props to styled components with TypeScript

Author

• Website - Justin Fowler Art