Frontend Mentor - Age calculator app solution

This is a solution to the Age calculator 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
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Continued development
  • Useful resources
• Author
• Acknowledgments

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Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• View an age in years, months, and days after submitting a valid date through the form
• Receive validation errors if:
  • Any field is empty when the form is submitted
  • The day number is not between 1-31
  • The month number is not between 1-12
  • The year is in the future
  • The date is invalid e.g. 31/04/1991 (there are 30 days in April)
• 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
• Bonus: See the age numbers animate to their final number when the form is submitted

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: Check Solution
• Live Site URL: Visit Live Site

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• Flexbox
• Mobile-first workflow
• DayJs
• React - JS library

What I learned

I learnt a clean and precise way of calculating the difference between two dates

const getAgeDetails = (oldDate, newDate) => {
  const years = newDate.diff(oldDate, 'year');
  const months = newDate.diff(oldDate, 'months') - years * 12;
  const days = newDate.diff(oldDate.add(years, 'year').add(months, 'month'), 'day')

  return {
    years,
    months,
    days,
    allDays: newDate.diff(oldDate, 'day'),
  };
};

Continued development

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Useful resources

• Calculate the date - This helped me for calculation of the Dates. I really liked this pattern and will use it going forward.

Author

• Website - Abdulquddus Abdulrahman (Lexzee)
• Frontend Mentor - @lexzee
• Twitter - @devlexzee

Acknowledgments

Big thanks to Patryk Janik, his solution on stackoverflow helped me for calculation of the Dates.