Projects
Here you can find non-professional/personal projects I've worked on. Most of the code for these projects can be found on my GitHub.
For hosting this website, and other projects unless otherwise stated, I use the following: DigitalOcean, CapRover, Docker, Nginx
Personal Website
About
This website, which you are current on, is a personal website that I built to showcase my work and projects. It is built using the Deno Fresh framework, which is a modern web framework built on top of Deno, a runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript. It provides a fast, simple, and highly optimized approach to building web applications, especially for server-side rendering (SSR). Fresh emphasizes zero-config deployment, TypeScript-first development, and performance out of the box. Styling is done using Tailwind CSS, a utility-first CSS framework.
It is currently a work in progress, currently only used to showcase my work and projects, as well as contact information. In the works is a photography gallery, to showcase my photography work, as well as a tech blog.
Technologies/Platforms
Deno Fresh, Deno, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
The Fight Lab - Fighting Game Community
I've been a member of the Fighting Game Community since 2012. I partake in, and help run events which promote the social and competitive nature of fighting games such as Street Fighter, Tekken, Guilty Gear etc. I also help co-run local events in Brighton and London, and have even run events at VSFighting, the UK's largest fighting game tournament.
Fightlab Fighting Game Community Stream Tool
November 2019 - Present
About
The Fight Lab stream tool allows us to control and manage overlays (e.g scoreboard/cameras) and text displayed on those overlays in real timeand from anywhere for a live stream on Twitch using tools such as OBS. This was built to help us run our tournaments and events, and to make it easier to manage the stream.
The client side is built using React.js, and is split between the views and the management tool. The views are the actual overlays that are displayed on the stream, and the management tool is the tool that allows us to control the views. The client side interfaces with the server side using websockets, which manages the data and state on each scene. The server side is built using Node.js and Express.js, and is responsible for managing the websockets, current state of the data, and the API to control the data.
We've been using the tool for over 5 years now, and it has been a great help in managing our streams. We've even had other communities use it for their streams, and have had great feedback from them.
Habrewken - Brighton Fighting Game Community Website
October 2012 - March 2020 | Brighton, UK
About
The Brighton Fighting Game Community Website and Resource is a one stop shop for every event and tournament we’ve ever run. As well as statistics on players and games that we play.
The web site was a major passion project, and a love letter to specifically the Brighton Fighting Game Community. It primarily uses React.js on the client side, and uses Redux to maintain the global state making it really easy to manipulate data around the website. Using the awesome Challonge API (the platform we use to manage the tournaments) we can get information on every tournament we’ve ever run, down to every round in a game that has been played. This was implemented on our open server API based on Express.js to combine all this information together.
The website is no longer updated, as events with the Brighton Fighting Game community stopped in March 2020 with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Technologies/Platforms
React.js, Redux, Node.js, MongoDB, Express.js, Challonge API
Bracketor for Challonge
December 2015 - March 2016
About
A mobile app communicating with the Challonge API making it easy to manage tournaments on a phone. The idea came about due to the open nature of the Challonge API, and the fact that the frontend of the Challonge website was not mobile friendly when I had begun work on this (circa 2016).
Since then though the Challonge website has massively improved their mobile view making this app redundant and have since taken it down from the App Store and Google Play Store, but at the time this was a very useful app to work on and use.