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.

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

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• React - JS library
• leaflet.js - interactive maps framework
• react-leaflet.js - React components for Leaflet

What I learned

• How to use Leaflet (easy to use/ great performance)

 <MapContainer
      style={{ height: "100vh" }}
      center={props.positionNum} zoom={13}>
      <ChangeView center={props.positionNum} />
      <TileLayer
        attribution='&copy; <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright">OpenStreetMap</a> contributors'
        url="https://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png"
      />
      <Marker position={props.positionNum}>
        <Popup>
          Your Approximate location
        </Popup>
      </Marker>
    </MapContainer>

Useful resources

• Leaflet Quick Start Guide - This simple step-by-step guide helped me with the basics of leaflet.
• react-Leaflet - This guided me through how to use leaflet in react.