How to start Front-end Coding Challenges ? - Frontend Mentor

We all know that there is a website called Frontend Mentor where we'll be given some awesome real world front-end challenges to practice and enhance our frontend skills.

Thanks to Frontend Mentor, I completed about ten challenges, I really learnt a lot.

Get Started

Go to Frontend Mentor.
Login with Github.
Go to challenge tab.

Open a challenge and download starter files (as .zip)

Start your project

Open your projects folder.
Create a new directory

frontend-[CHALLENGE NAME]
├── assets
│   ├── designs
│   └── images
├── css
│   └── styles.css
├── index.html
├── readme.md
├── scripts
│   └── scripts.js
├── style-guide.md
└── .gitignore

I use the above project structure. You'll get style-guide.md and image files from starters. Just copy them here.

designs directory contains your output screenshots and if you wish, you can include them in your readme.md.

HTML starter template

I created a little snippet in my Visual Code Editor and it generates starter template for Frontend Mentor in one tab.

Here it is,

Here is the starter template index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <title>Frontend Mentor | Challenge Name</title>
    <meta
      name="description"
      content="This is a front-end coding challenge - Challenge Name"
    />
    <link
      rel="icon"
      type="image/png"
      sizes="32x32"
      href="./assets/images/favicon-32x32.png"
    />
    <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com">
    <link
      href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/"
      rel="stylesheet"
    />
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="./css/styles.css" />
  </head>
  <body>
      <!-- Happy Coding -->
  </body>
</html>

CSS Styles

When it comes to CSS, I always love to start from scratch.

No website is completely unstyled.

Browser has a default style sheet called User Agent Stylesheet which adds margin to headings and paragraphs and applies font properties to all elements.

I usually reset all the styles and I start from scratch.

Here is my styles.css

:root{
  /* colors and fonts */
  --font: "Montserrat", sans-serif;
  --white: #ffffff;
}

*{
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

html{
  font-size: 62.5%;
}

html, body{
  height: 100%;
}

body{
  width: 100%;
  font-family: var(--font);
}

/* Other rule-sets */

There we go, Now we can start writing actual content to design the page.

Frontend Mentor Challenges will be really helpful for those who are looking to enhance their frontend skills.

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How to start Front-end Coding Challenges ? - Frontend Mentor

Hari Ram

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