Frontend Mentor - Interactive rating component solution

This is a solution to the Interactive rating component challenge on Frontend Mentor. Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building realistic projects.

Table of contents

• Frontend Mentor - Interactive rating component solution
  • Table of contents
  • Overview
    • The challenge
    • Screenshot
    • Links
  • My process
    • Built with
    • What I learned
    • Useful resources
  • 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
• Select and submit a number rating
• See the "Thank you" card state after submitting a rating

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: https://www.frontendmentor.io/solutions/interactive-rating-component-with-html-tailwind-css-and-vite-uxHc6XIJcf
• Live Site URL: https://interactive-rating-component-ndc.netlify.app/

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• TailwindCSS - A utility-first CSS framework
• Flexbox
• Grid
• Mobile-first workflow
• Vite - Next generation frontend tooling

What I learned

I'm particularly proud of how I used radio buttons to track the selected rating instead of implementing some complex state management and a lot of DOM manipulations. At first I was thinking of bringing a lightweight DOM library like AlpineJS, but then I remembered that forms can track state and went for a simple solution.

Useful resources

There's a Stack Overflow thread I used to help me style a label based on the state of the radio input button it's linked to. You can check out the thread here.

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @chiroro-jr
• Twitter - @chiroro_jr