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
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Continued development
  • Useful resources
• Author
• Acknowledgments

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

Links

• Live Site URL: live site

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• SCSS
• Flexbox
• Desktop-first workflow
• React - JS library
• React Leaflet
• Free IP API

What I learned

I learnt to work with useEffect() hook and how to fetch data using it. Object destructuring of useState() was also used in some places like here :

  const [error, seterror] = useState({ errorMsg: "hide", border: "" });

Continued development

I'll continue working with useEffect() hook and learn other hooks as well like useRef() and useMemo() . . .maybe work with Leaflet as well in the future...I'll try to work on JS Regex as well , since this time as well I copied the regex for valid IP Address from the net as well 😅😅

Useful resources

• Free IP API - This helped me as it provided with 60 requests per minute. Other APIs on the other hand provided with 1000 reqs per month . . .which I would have exhausted while building the project, the API data may/may not be a bit compromised as it is open sourced , but it's fine ig . . .
• React Leaflet - This is an amazing documentataion which helped me work with leaflet library and implement the map the way I wanted to. I'd recommend it to anyone still learning this concept.

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @solitary_coder

Acknowledgments

• GPT and Youtube ofc