Expenses chart component made with Flexbox, Vanilla JavaScript, Fetch
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This challenge took me 6.5 hours to complete from start to finish. (I'm starting to keep track of how long these take me : ) I was able to complete the bonus and add all the info dynamically from the JSON file. If anyone knows of a more dry way to get the current day to equal the value of the weekday please let me know! I used a switch statement in the end.
Community feedback
- @elaineleungPosted over 2 years ago
Hey Eileen, great work on this challenge; your component looks great and works well! I have to thank you because after looking at your question and what you did, I realize that I had misunderstood the highlighted bar to be the max height, and so I just went back to my code and fixed it. To answer your question, here's briefly what I did, but instead of using a
for
loop, I usedforEach()
:const currentDay = new Date().getDay() data.forEach( (info, idx) => { // idx is the index of the item in the array, so i.e., idx for monday would be 0 // I created a new div for the bar, which contains the amount tag, bar, and day label const barDiv = document.createElement("div") // this adds the class for the current day if (idx + 1 === currentDay) { barDiv.classList.add('highlight') } })
Hope this helps, and once again, great work!
Marked as helpful1 - @Chanda-AbdulPosted over 2 years ago
Great Solution!!
You could try using the JavasScript Date Object to dynamically set the current day of the week.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date
I hope that helps!
Marked as helpful0 - @Rashwan-MohamedPosted over 2 years ago
Hello Eileen, your solution is great good job, I think there is a better way for selecting the current day, it would begin by setting data-id for each day in html, then when you get the current day as number you will dynamically select the corresponding data-set id, in html for each day put data-id=(corresponding number), to access it in JS select dataset.id=currentDay, I hope you it clear enough..
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