Frontend Mentor - Time tracking dashboard solution

This is a solution to the Time tracking dashboard challenge on Frontend Mentor.

Table of contents

• Frontend Mentor - Time tracking dashboard solution
  • Table of contents
  • Overview
    • The challenge
    • Screenshot
    • Links
  • My process
    • Built with
    • What I learned
      • Git
      • Javascript
      • Typescript
      • SASS/SCSS
      • Vue
  • Project setup
    • Clone the repo locally
    • Install dependencies
    • Compiles and hot-reloads for development
    • Compiles and minifies for production
    • Recommended IDE Setup
  • Continued development
  • 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
• Switch between viewing Daily, Weekly, and Monthly stats

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL
• Live Site

My process

Built with

• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Mobile-first workflow
• Pug - HTML preprocessor
• Sass/Scss - CSS preprocessor
• Vue3 - JS framework
• Typescript - JS Preprocessor
• Vite - Build tool

What I learned

Git

• To see all of the commits that changed a specific file: git log with the --follow flag and filename can be used. link

git log --follow -- filename

Javascript

• To get the number of the children of an element, childElementCount property can be used.

<ul>
  <li>item 1</li>
  <li>item 2</li>
  <li>item 3</li>
</ul>

const ulElement = document.querySelector("ul");
console.log(ul.childElementCount); //  3

Typescript

• To create an interface/type that have another interface's types and some additional types, extends can be used

interface X {
  name: string;
}

interface Y extends X {
  age: number;
}

// interface Y will be equivalent to:
interface XY {
  name: string;
  age: number;
}

• For this same purpose, type aliases with intersection(&) can be used as well.

type Y = X & { age: number };

SASS/SCSS

• If there are no parameters in a sass mixin, the parentheses can be omitted.

@mixin foo() {
  // ...
}

@mixin foo { // 👈 no parentheses
  // ...
}

@include foo; // it can be omitted when calling the mixin too

Vue

• Composition api setup() function can be used as a separate script tag. doc

<script>
import { ref } from "@vue";
import VComponent from "./components/VComponent.vue"

export default {
  components: {
    VComponent
  }
  setup() {
    const x = ref(0);
    return { x };
  },
};
</script>

<template>
  <VComponent>{{ x }}</VComponent>
</template>

👆 This can be written like this 👇

<script setup>
import VComponent from "./components/VComponent.vue"
import { ref } from "@vue";

const x = ref(0);
</script>

<template>
  <VComponent>{{ x }}</VComponent>
</template>

<script setup> can be used alongside normal <script>

• Ref sugar (currently it is an experimental feature) proposal

import { ref } from 'vue'

const x = ref(0)
const y = () => x.value + 1

With $ref, the code above can be shortened to this:

let x = $ref(0)
const y = () => x + 1

Basically, it eliminates the need to use .value when using refs. And since it's a compiler macro, it doesn't need to be imported.

Project setup

Clone the repo locally

git clone https://github.com/FarisPalayi/time-tracking-dashboard.git

Install dependencies

yarn

Compiles and hot-reloads for development

yarn dev

Compiles and minifies for production

yarn build

Recommended IDE Setup

• VSCode + Volar

Continued development

I find that when writing asynchronous code with the composition api, I'm running into a lot of problems. So, my next focus will be to read the composition api docs well. And I'm also planning to create some vanilla js, typescript projects.

Useful resources

• Vue 3 docs - Vue's official doc
• SFC <script setup> - api reference page
• Ref sugar - Ref sugar proposal
• How can I list all commits that changed a specific file - Stack overflow

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @farispalayi
• Twitter - @farispalayi