Jolt | Devpost

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Inspiration

This project was inspired by our group's love for sports and being involved in the analytical side of competitive sports as spectators.

What it does

Jolt quickly fetches information from a REST API and displays it in a way that is pleasing to eye and easy to read. The hope is for people wanting more information on how their favorite sports teams or athletes are doing this season to have a place to go that provides fast results with little effort.

How we built it

This project was build using Next.js and tailwind. It was a phenomenal learning opportunity for our group as our experience was limited.

Challenges we ran into

Being new to Next.js proved to be a large challenge as we navigated the niches of learning any new framework. API usage was also a limited resource that we needed to use sparingly during the development process. Too many requests would mean being locked out for the day util we got. more.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are very proud of the project we have made as it looks pleasing and actually performs to our needs. That first successful API fetch was such an adrenaline rush.

What we learned

We learned a lot about how splitting code up into multiple files and functions can greatly increase the simplicity of a project when used properly. Our usage of helper functions for fetching specific data not cleaned up our files but it also allowed for us to create a list of functions that needed to be made which helped out greatly with productivity.

What's next for Jolt

Jolt will expand into different sports and deeper analytics. One essential feature that would be a big use would be caching and indexing of the REST API's database so that we can limit our number of API calls and therefore lowing time needed for network traffic to flow in.