Frontend Mentor - IP address tracker solution

This is a solution to the IP address tracker 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

Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• View the optimal layout for each page depending on their device's screen size
• See hover states for all interactive elements on the page
• See their own IP address on the map on the initial page load
• Search for any IP addresses or domains and see the key information and location

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: Repo
• Live Site URL: site

My process

Built with

• Mobile-first workflow
• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• json-server for testing
• express
• axios

What I learned

• use object-fit:cover to clip image if it doesn't fit the width

  .background-img {
    object-fit: cover;
    width: 100%;
    height: 250px;
  }

• how to build backend with express

• usage of ref to get properies of Component and use them on the same instance

• use useMemo to cache the results value so that it doesn't render again if i ask same api

• use express to build backend service