Frontend Mentor - Tip calculator app solution

This is a solution to the Tip calculator app challenge on Frontend Mentor. Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building realistic projects.

Table of contents

• Overview
  • The challenge
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Continued development
• Author

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
• Calculate the correct tip and total cost of the bill per person

Links

• Solution URL: Frontend Mentor Solution
• Live Site URL: GitHub Pages Live Site

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS
• Mobile-first workflow
• Vanilla JavaScript

What I learned

Using addEventListener is the key to this project. I was stumbling around and was trying to find ways to register the inputs. That is entirely what the index.js file is composed of.

I'm fairly proud that I was able to complete this using pure JavaScript. Most solutions to problems I came across recommended jQuery, but I wanted to stick to JavaScript only.

Continued development

Hoping to develop more websites with less hacky methods. My main struggle was getting the dimensions and layout right. My solution felt inadequate as I hardcoded pixels in to get it right on my screen. I felt satisfied with how it looks, but in the future I plan to use more methods that aren't absolute in the pixel placements.

Author

• GitHub - Brandon Nhem
• Frontend Mentor - @brandonnhem