Improve your skills in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS by building a social media dashboard with a dark/light theme. Jess, who runs the popular Coder Coder YouTube channel, will guide you through a beginner Frontend Mentor challenge.

?? Course created by @TheCoderCoder

Resources:
? Responsive Design for Beginners! https://coder-coder.com/responsive/
? Source code on GitHub: https://github.com/thecodercoder/fem-dklt-toggle
? Challenge on Frontend Mentor: https://www.frontendmentor.io/challenges/social-media-dashboard-with-theme-switcher-6oY8ozp_H
? Andy Bell: Create a user controlled dark or light mode — https://piccalil.li/tutorial/create-a-user-controlled-dark-or-light-mode/

?? Contents ??
Part 1
?? (0:00:00) Intro
?? (0:01:26) Functional requirements of design
?? (0:11:31) Accessible form controls
?? (0:15:37) Update CSS custom properties with JS
?? (0:23:39) Screen reader-only text

Part 2
?? (0:29:10) Creating GitHub repo
?? (0:34:33) Set up SCSS and JS files
?? (1:09:55) Set up Gulp workflow

Part 3
?? (1:31:24) Studying the design
?? (1:37:10) Building out the top bar
?? (1:51:42) Using accessible markup
?? (2:04:55) Styling top bar
?? (2:23:26) Styling toggle and make accessible

Part 4
?? (3:24:56) What is BEM? Planning out the class names
?? (3:36:46) Adding the markup and the SCSS selectors for the cards
?? (3:47:30) Styles for card
?? (4:16:41) Layout for the card grid with flexbox, then CSS grid
?? (4:33:26) Styling the top bars on the cards
?? (4:49:36) Bottom cards markup and styles

Part 5
?? (5:33:54) Changing the toggle based on comments
?? (5:54:42) Use system preferences to load light or dark theme
?? (6:18:24) Build the toggle logic to manually change light/dark theme
?? (6:43:34) Save toggle settings in local storage

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