Frontend Mentor - Interactive comments section solution

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

Table of contents

• Overview
  • The challenge
    • Extra
  • Screenshot
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Continued development
• 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
• Create, Read, Update, and Delete comments and replies
• Upvote and downvote comments
• Bonus: If you're building a purely front-end project, use localStorage to save the current state in the browser that persists when the browser is refreshed.
• Bonus: Instead of using the createdAt strings from the data.json file, try using timestamps and dynamically track the time since the comment or reply was posted.

Extra

• Bonus: Add header with user's name, avatar (hardcoded image for now), and logout button
• Bonus: Add login/register page with form validation
• Bonus: Make the app fullstack by adding a backend with Next.js API routes and MongoDB
• Bonus: Show error message on modal
• Bonus: Show loaders when fetching data

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: https://github.com/coderSuresh/fullstack-comment-section
• Live Site URL: https://fullstack-comment.vercel.app/

My process

Built with

• Next.js - React framework
• Tailwind CSS - For styles
• TypeScript - For type checking
• MongoDB - Database

What I learned

I learned how to use Next.js API routes to create a REST API. I also learned how to use MongoDB with Next.js.

Continued development

I want to continue learning how to use Next.js API routes and MongoDB. I also want to learn how to use Next.js with GraphQL / Express.

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @codersuresh
• Linkedin - @codersuresh