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Submitted 11 months ago

Responsive Mortgage Calculator built with Vue3, TailwindCSS and TS

accessibility, typescript, vue, pinia
Dylan Heslop•2,460
@dylan-dot-c
A solution to the Mortgage repayment calculator challenge
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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.

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  • Atatra•170
    @Atatra

    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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