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Frontend Mentor - Age calculator app

Table of contents

• Overview
  • The challenge
  • Screenshot
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Continued development
  • Useful resources
• Author
• Acknowledgments

Overview

An age calculator that calculated your age by adding your day of birth.

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• View an age in years, months, and days after submitting a valid date through the form
• Receive validation errors if:
  • Any field is empty when the form is submitted
  • The day number is not between 1-31
  • The month number is not between 1-12
  • The year is in the future
  • The date is invalid e.g. 31/04/1991 (there are 30 days in April)
• View the optimal layout for the interface depending on their device's screen size
• See hover and focus states for all interactive elements on the page
• Bonus: See the age numbers animate to their final number when the form is submitted

Screenshot

Desktop Mobile

Links

• Solution URL: Vercel
• Live Site URL: FrontEnd Mentor

My process

• Understanding the task;
• Separate it into smaller tasks (if possible), then solve them one by one.

Built with

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

What I learned

• Working with dates in JavaScript can be difficult and tedious, especially if you aren't using any library. Thqnks tonthe challenge, no I know thr basic functionality of Date.now(), getMonth(), getDate() etc. , but still need more practice.
• Using first time getComputedStyle and getPropertyValue and understanding how tonise them was really nice.

Continued development

• I'm continuing my journey of becoming better frontend developer.
• Need more practice with JS, CSS (grid and flex), and HTML (for SEO);
• I have to optimize my CSS better.
• Practicing dates, time stamps etc.

Useful resources

• CSS-Tricks - Great source for anything related to CSS
• Chat-GPT - Helping me find my mistakes faster.
• MDN web docs

Author

• GitHub - Nikolay Toshev
• Frontend Mentor - @gilotin
• LinkedIn - Nikolay Toshev

Acknowledgments

I want to thank to my family and friend for the support and patience.