Sports Bracket

Title: Full-Stack Soccer Bracket Platform (React, Express, TypeScript) Project Description: This project is a robust, full-stack application engineered to manage the entire lifecycle of a soccer tournament. It was built from the ground up to provide a single, centralized platform for organizers, participants, and fans.

It moves beyond static images or spreadsheets, delivering a fast, reliable, and highly interactive experience for creating tournament structures, managing teams, tracking live match results, and sharing brackets in real-time.

Project Highlights: Dynamic & Interactive React Frontend: Leveraging React's component-based architecture, the frontend provides a fluid and intuitive interface. Built entirely in TypeScript, it features dynamic bracket visualizations that update in real-time as scores are reported. This allows users to easily fill out predictions, track live standings, and engage with the tournament as it unfolds.

Scalable Express.js Backend API: The server-side is powered by a high-performance REST API built with Express.js and TypeScript. This secure and scalable backend handles all complex business logic, including secure user authentication, data validation, and persistent storage for user data, bracket predictions, and match results.

Automated Scoring & Logic: A key feature of the backend is its automated scoring engine. It's designed to process live match results, automatically compare them against user predictions, update bracket standings, and calculate user scores, providing an engaging, real-time feedback loop for participants.

End-to-End Type Safety: With TypeScript implemented across the entire stack (both the React client and the Express server), the project guarantees data integrity and contract-matching between the frontend and backend. This "full-stack type safety" significantly reduces runtime errors, enhances code quality, and makes the codebase far more maintainable, scalable, and easier to refactor.

Production-Grade Deployment & CI/CD: The application is not just a local concept; it is fully deployed and publicly accessible on Railway. This demonstrates proficiency in modern DevOps practices and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) workflows, enabling rapid iteration, automated testing, and stable, production-ready updates.

Tech Stack: Frontend: React, TypeScript

Backend: Express.js, TypeScript

Deployment: Railway