I recently learnt Sass and have been thinking about what project to build with this CSS Preprocessor, so I decided to do a little research on popular projects to build for your portfolio.

I didn't want to build the next to-do list or calculator app 😅 More importantly, I needed a project that had more presentation than functionality to fully get my hands wet with SASS.

This lead me to Giray's question on how to create a Hashnode clone.

You can read more about it here 👇🏽

https://hashnode.com/post/how-to- create-hashnode-clone-cjgxqh5vq003a12s1k08s4b2u/answer/cjgxrazj9003p12s1j1psm4ng

So I decided to create a static clone of Hashnode's landing page using HTML, SASS, and JavaScript.

The Result

I built Hashnode's landing page clone with SASS.gif

Preview 👉🏽 Hashnode Clone

What I learned

While building this project, I learnt a really useful trick that I think is worth mentioning:

How to get an SVG icon using developer tools. 🤯

If you look at Hashnode's website, you'll notice a lot of custom SVG icons and illustrations being used. I learnt a neat trick on how to get these icons using the developer tools, which works on any website on the internet. To get the icon, right-click on the SVG icon and select inspect.

This will open up the dev tools with the icon selected. Next, right-click on the SVG Element and select Edit as SVG.

Copy the SVG code and paste it into a new file with a .svg file extension.

To Edit the created SVG icon, I used SVG extension on VS Code to preview the icons while editing.

Want to learn more about creating SVG, check out Estee Tey article: Introduction to SVG.

What Next

It was quite fun and challenging to build this clone. Learned quite a lot, and also got an open source idea I will be working on hopefully. 😅

At this point, I'm quite comfortable with this project and I feel it has given me a lot of use case and hands-on experience in working with SASS. When I have the time, a few things I might add to this project would be,

Implement the dark mode.
Add the functionality for the dropdown toggle button.
Add more pages, ETC.

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I Built Hashnode's Landing Page Clone With SASS