Frontend Mentor - Dictionary web app solution

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

Table of contents

• Overview
  • The challenge
  • Screenshot
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Continued development
• Author
• Acknowledgments

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Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• Search for words using the input field
• See the Free Dictionary API's response for the searched word
• See a form validation message when trying to submit a blank form
• Play the audio file for a word when it's available
• Switch between serif, sans serif, and monospace fonts
• Switch between light and dark themes
• View the optimal layout for the interface depending on their device's screen size
• See hover and focus states for all interactive elements on the page

Screenshot

Mobile View:

Desktop View:

My process

Built with

• React - JS library
• Tailwind CSS - For styles
• Free Dictionary API - For dictionary data
• Shadcn - for UI Components
• React Hook Form - for form validation
• Tanstack Query - for data fetching

What I learned

• I learned how to use React Hook Form to easily handle Forms data
• I also learned about Tanstack query for data fetching, and how to use it with React Hook Form

Continued development

I'm getting more and more familiar with using React & TypeScript. Adding types for every variable seems exhausting at first, but it helps a lot in the long run. During this project, I discovered that I'm still have a long way to learn React, especially it's hooks as they are sometimes confusing and hard to understand.

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @Earthyyy
• Github - @Earthyy

Acknowledgments

Big Thanks <3 to :

• Web Dev Simplified
• ByteGrad
• Frontend Mentor