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Submitted

Responsive Mortgage Calculator built with Vue3, TailwindCSS and TS

@dylan-dot-c

Desktop design screenshot for the Mortgage repayment calculator coding challenge

This is a solution for...

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JS
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Solution retrospective


What are you most proud of, and what would you do differently next time?

This was an interesting challenge overall. I'm most proud of how I was able to get the input with the extra text into a reuseable component where the developer can specify which side they want the text to be at(left/right). I would definitely use a more cleaner code approach next time.

What challenges did you encounter, and how did you overcome them?

I was trying to get the form validations without using any extra state or Javascript code, but It seemed to be harder so I might just change to javascript instead for the validations. Also had a small issue with the enhanced inputs and validations.

What specific areas of your project would you like help with?

I would like help with doing the validation manually as using HTML+CSS for the validation was a bit more challenging than expected. Also cleaning up the code and making it more accessible.

Community feedback

Atatra 170

@Atatra

Posted

Well done, looks clean! :)

Seems like I'm not the only one who tried to factorize the inputs into a single one. Though your code is cleaner than mine. Your CSS solution for hidding/showing the error is interesting.

  • But maybe you could hide the error messages before the user submits the form? It would make the user experience a bit better I think. But you would need to add some javascript.

  • I'm not acquainted with VueJS so it's probably not true (though it doesn't seem so different from NextJS). It looks like you could do it with @submit keyword in your <form> if you correctly named your inputs (see Using Custom Validation . Actually, I did something quite similar here Line 103. My code is ugly, but the idea is the same I suppose. So in your @sumbit, before calling calculateMortage(), or inside, you could check if the infos are empty string/null. Then update your formErrors accordingly. Finally, you will have to extract this array just like you did in MortgageResults. Well, I don't know if there's a simpler solution, or one that only uses HTML+CSS.

(I'm still trying to wrap my head around how you managed to change the radio button's color? It looks so good!!)

Happy coding! :)

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@dylan-dot-c

Posted

@Atatra hey! Thanks for the review. I see we both used TailwindCSS for the styling, i did the hide/show part with selectors in css and how i did the input. So basically if the input field is invalid, make the p.error element visible

  input[type='radio']:invalid {
    & ~ .error {
      display: block;
      margin: 0;
    }
  }

But my main objective was to try and depend on html and CSS for my validation instead of using JS, didn't turn out how I wanted it so I might have to use JS instead. I guess I was trying to not complicate things by using js, I see it most places where people do something complex in js that could be done with proper html/css.

Like even for the multi-step form, thats how I did the validation using zustand and custom validators and keeping my errors state in an array/object. ANd as you can see I was planning to do the same for vue but I just have an used formErrors state lol.

<label
    for="interest"
    class="border p-4 pl-16 mb-12 relative"
    :class="{ 'border-lime bg-lime bg-opacity-10': data.formInfo.type == 'interest' }">
     <input
         type="radio"
         name="type"
         value="interest"
         id="interest"
         class=""
         v-model="data.formInfo.type"
         required
         />
     <span class="radio"><span class="radio--circle"></span></span>
      Interest
    <p class="error hidden text-red absolute top-16 left-0">This field is required</p>
    </label>

That is the html that I used so I just wrapped the whole info with a label and for the css(non-tailwind part)

input[type='radio']:checked ~ .radio {
    border-color: hsl(61, 70%, 52%);

    & .radio--circle {
      display: inherit;
      background-color: hsl(61, 70%, 52%);
      width: 10px;
      height: 10px;
      border-radius: 50%;
    }
  }

  .radio {
    display: grid;
    place-items: center;
    position: absolute;
    left: 5px;

    width: 20px;
    height: 20px;
    border-radius: 50%;
    border: 1px solid rgb(138, 138, 148);
  }

And I also added a little opacity of the lime color for the bg of the label.

So thats what I did, also I realized you used a custom radio but you would also have to hide the default one, either with opacity or display none. And due to that it wont look too perfect.

PS: I was a react guy(might still be) but react makes me write some nasty looking code so yh... trying out vue and its cool so far. Only issue I have is dealing with some global state, like I know in react how when state changes the component re-renders and same for any components that use the state, so in react the state is very reactive but not so easily reactive with vue(refs / reactive).

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Atatra 170

@Atatra

Posted

@dylan-dot-c Thanks so much for the thorough answer, it makes everything a lot clearer! I'll keep in mind your solution when I'll have to deal with radios next time.

I know absolutely nothing about Vue so it's interesting to hear the differences between the two. Me too, I tend to write nasty code in React - though I'm still a beginner anyway. My last real project (a multistep form builder and previewer) was so badly written that it made me want to cry haha. I don't know if it will get better, but I'll might consider trying out Vuejs too then.

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@dylan-dot-c

Posted

@Atatra Just updated the validation, had to do it manually, not sure if its exact but take a look if you have the time

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