Frontend Mentor - Browser extensions manager UI solution

This is a solution to the Browser extensions manager UI 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
  • Continued development
  • Useful resources
• Author

Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• Toggle extensions between active and inactive states
• Filter active and inactive extensions
• Remove extensions from the list
• Select their color theme
• 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

Links

• Solution URL: https://www.frontendmentor.io/solutions/browser-extension-manager-ui-with-react-and-typescript-hdC5m27Sn6
• Live Site URL: https://florianstancioiu.github.io/browser-extensions-manager-ui/

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Mobile-first workflow
• React - JS library
• TailwindCSS - For styles
• TypeScript - JavaScript superset

What I learned

• I'm really happy I made this project work correctly with TypeScript, in hindsight, this was very simple, but I got distracted by the fact that Vite requires you to import types using the type keyword (this was the biggest challenge I had to overcome in this project I think).
• I learned about the new @theme directive in TailwindCSS, I learned to use the newest version of Tailwind (v4).
• I re-learned how to add SVG files as components in React.
• I'm not gonna lie, at first, the filtering of the extensions items did give me a headache but in the end, I managed to complete the task.

Continued development

• I think I missed out when I decided to skip the focus states for this project, I'm not sure if every single link will be treated as a focus element or not. I might come back to this project later to see if that is true or not.

• I also didn't use localStorage to set the dark mode "permanently".

• I would also come back and change every single px value to it's rem corespondent.

Useful resources

• Vite Plugin SVGR - This helped me to include SVGs as React components in JSX
• How do I add color to my svg image in react - StackOverflow answer I found useful
• Why does my Vue/Vite/Typescript application require me to separate "import" and "import type" by default? - A StackOverflow answer I found useful when dealing with TypeScript
• Toggling dark mode manually - A TailwindCSS feature I used
• @theme directive - A relatively new TailwindCSS feature (v4) I used

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @florianstancioiu
• Threads - @florianstancioiu01
• LinkedIn - @florianstancioiu
• freeCodeCamp - florianstancioiu