Password Generator

About The Project

This is my password generator project. Using the starter code, I created the generatePassword function that is called from within the writePassword function.

I started by creating a prompt to ask the user how many characters they want the password to be and save that to a variable named numChars. Then I created confirms for specialChars, lowerCase, uperCase, and numbers. Each type of character that was confirmed by the user was added to an array called typeArr.

Once I had the users responses I initialized the password and created a for loop that would iterated for the length of numChars.

I then created a method called random that I used to pull a random type from the typeArr array. Then I created a series of if statements to test the type and run the appropriate function to generate a number, uppercase letter, lowercase letter, or special character and add it to the password string which was passed to the wrietePassword function.

I found the function for alpabet at Coderrocketfuel.com and used it for both lower and uppercase letters. For uppercase I just use the toUpperCase() method before adding it to the password string. I copied the alphabet function and used it for the special characters, replacing the alphabet string with special characters.

I got the random function from MDN Web Docs.

I got the idea from my classmate, Matthew Brignola to add a copy to clipboard function so I found a copy text to clipboard function at W3Schools. I edited it to use a copy button that I found at Icons3.com.

I also found that the function would only work on my local server with

navigator.clipboard.writeText(copyText.value);

and on git hub with

document.body.navigator.clipboard.writeText(copyText.value);

so I found an way to check using an if statment:

if (location.hostname === "localhost" || location.hostname === "127.0.0.1") {
    navigator.clipboard.writeText(copyText.value);
  } else {
    document.body.navigator.clipboard.writeText(copyText.value);
  }