abelcastro.dev

I am big football (soccer) fan and follow sports news daily. However, even with this routine, I often find myself unfamiliar with the current standings in the Premier League, Serie A, or other leagues.

In my view, football coverage these days is overwhelmingly occupied with topics like transfer rumors, relegating actual match outcomes to secondary importance.

This observation sparked the idea for my latest project: Sports Dashboard. This Angular-based website displays the standings of the most prominent football leagues across Europe. Additionally, the Austrian Bundesliga features on the site not because it's one of Europe's most critical competitions, but because I reside in Austria and wish to stay informed about local football.

The API

To provide the frontend with data I developed a new REST endpoint: GET https://abelcastro.dev/api/sports/standings/.

The data will be automatically updated every day at 2 AM.

Upting the data

I have implemented a management command import_league_standings.py, which is scheduled to run daily via a cron job on the server.

Conclusion

My goal with this project was to become familiar with Angular, and for me, the best way to achieve that is by working on a real project. In this case, the project turned out to be something truly useful. I hope the Sports Dashboard will also help me to reduce the frequency of my visits to sports news pages.