@maiaflow
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this looks so awesome, Eric! i was feeling a bit out of my depth giving feedback, not really having an understanding of how axios works. (i'm still trying to figure out exactly where the advice is coming from!) but then I read your readme, and I'm honored you learned something from me! :o) box shadow looks awesome! and i totally know what you mean about the colors- i often feel that way with the front end design challenges, that the colors are either slightly off or not used. well done as always!
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@ericsalvi
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@maiaflow Thank you for your comment! Also thank you for showing me something new that made box shadows super easy.
As for Axios, it is used to make XMLHttpRequests. What that means is it allows me to pass something into this package and then it outputs a variable to use with that given data. So in https://github.com/ericsalvi/advice-generator-app/blob/main/scripts/scripts.js line 1 is the URL of advice data and line 8 is the request. Then if you were to go to that URL, https://api.adviceslip.com/advice you'll see it displays JSON. Lines 10 and 11 essentially sets the variables based on the 2 items the JSON code provides.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest/Using_XMLHttpRequest is another approach directly using JS. Axios is sort of like a package that does just this.
I hope this helps and we can chat more about it if you wanted.
