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
  • 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 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

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: Github repository
• Live Site URL: GitHub page

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Mobile-first workflow
• LeafletJS - JS library for Maps
• IPAPI - IP address API

What I learned

I learnt how to work with the LeafletJS library.

function getUserIP(api) {
    fetch(api)
    .then(response => response.json())
    .then(data => {
        mapper(data.latitude, data.longitude);
        ipAddress.text(data.ip);
        userLocation.text(`${data.city}, ${data.country_name}`);
        userTimezone.text(`UTC ${data.utc_offset.slice(0,3)}:00`);
        userISP.text(data.org);
    })
    .catch(err => {
        alert(err);
        console.error(err);
    });
}

Continued development

I'd get better at working with external APIs and asynchronous javascript.

Author

• Website - Kelechi Kizito Ugwu
• Frontend Mentor - @Kelechikizito
• Twitter - @kelechiikizito