NutMeg

First decent soccer website

Goals/Motivations

• Love Soccer, no better way to demonstrate my progess than through building something I am passionate about
• Application of newer technologies in my arsenal: Material UI, Less, Fetch React
• Passionate about making something clean, something that defines me, primarily something that I am super proud of
• Single page app fam
• Backup plan: Switch Sports :(

Initial Key Features

• Teams and Players (Premier League initially)
• Player stats
• Daily News
• Daily prayers that all of this info actually has API's for them

Key Struggles

• Spent hours looking for ideal accessible Soccer APIs - Try SportDeer -- free until 2019!

• implementing Async/Await with fetch in componentDidMount instead of .then wasn't too bad actually

• Being able to navigate through a codebase proved to be essential for jumping into Material UI and integrating it with my design.

• Routing - be wary Material UI uses a switch to check through routes so must have nested routes come before more general routes. However I feel as if exact path was used instead of just path I would not have had this issue. (Will look more into this later)

• Getting the data I want from this jargin, may implement my own backend in the future to address these issues