Frontend Mentor - Clock App Challenge

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

Table of contents

• Overview
  • The challenge
  • Expected Behaviour
  • Built with
  • APIs
  • Preview

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
• View the current time and location information based on their IP address
• View additional information about the date and time in the expanded state
• Be shown the correct greeting and background image based on the time of day they're visiting the site
• Generate random programming quotes by clicking the refresh icon near the quote

Expected Behaviour

• Change the greeting depending on the time of day. It should say:
  • "Good morning" between 5am and 12pm
  • "Good afternoon" between 12pm and 6pm
  • "Good evening" between 6pm and 5am
• Change the greeting icon and background image depending on the time of day. They should show:
  • The sun icon and the daytime background image between 5am and 6pm
  • The moon icon and the nighttime background image between 6pm and 5am
• Generate a new random programming quote whenever the refresh icon is clicked

Built with

• React - JS library
• Styled Components - For styles
• Moment JS - Time

APIs

• World Time API to set the time based on the visitor's IP adress. This API will also be used for additional data, like the day of the year shown in the expanded state.
• IPstack API to set the city and country underneath the time
• Programming Quotes API to generate random programming quotes.

Preview

Desktop

Tablet

Mobile