Frontend Mentor - Expenses Chart Component

This is a solution to the Expenses Chart Component. Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building realistic projects.

Table of contents

• Overview
  • The challenge
  • Screenshots
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • Continued development
  • Useful resources
• Author

Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• View the bar chart and hover over the individual bars to see the correct amounts for each day
• See the current day's bar highlighted in a different colour to the other bars
• View the optimal layout for the content depending on their device's screen size
• See hover states for all interactive elements on the page
• Bonus: See dynamically generated bars based on the data provided in the local JSON file

Screenshots

Links

• Solution URL: Link
• Live Site URL: Link

My process

Built with

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

Continued development

Coding the bar chart from scratch was very fun. My code was pretty rudimentary and lacked flexibility, but it is responsive and I personally feel the styling was very modular.

I converted the .json file into a .js file because the solutions I found online to locally importing a .json file felt very hacky.

Useful resources

• Calc allowed me to properly center the tooltips in the bar. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/calc
• Used a rule of three formula to get the correct PX height for the bar. https://byjus.com/maths/direct-proportion/

Author

• Twitter - @codingtomato