🏡 Hands-on: A Mortgage Calculator That Actually Gets UX Right Hey DEV community! 👋

Hey DEV community! 👋 If you’ve ever looked into buying a house, you know the process is stressful enough. But figuring out exactly what your monthly payments will look like shouldn't require a finance degree. Recently, while playing around with different mortgage scenarios (adjusting down payments, stressing over interest rates, looking at loan terms), I realized that most online mortgage calculators are surprisingly frustrating to use. I want to share a tool I’ve been testing that takes a completely different, highly user-centric approach to this problem. If you are interested in frontend development, data visualization, or just want a seamless way to calculate a home loan, you need to see how this tool handles complex state changes. 💡 The Pain Points: Why are most mortgage calculators so clunky? Before I found this one, I kept running into the same UX roadblocks: The "Black Box" of Amortization: Most tools just spit out a massive, intimidating table of numbers for your 30-year amorti