LiveOL: A 10-year retrospective
LiveOL is an app that leverages the live result API to display real-time results for orienteering competitions. As it approaches its tenth anniversary, this is a technical retrospective on its journey, highlighting key milestones and lessons learned. The name LiveOL comes from "Live" (self explanatory), and "OL" which in Swedish is "Orienteringslöpning" which means "Orienteering running" - kind of. The project began on May 9, 2015, during my second year of high school. I had just started coding for mobile devices using PhoneGap (Cordova), which allowed me to build apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. At the time, jQuery was still popular so I used that. While the app wasn’t native, it worked by embedding web views into a downloadable…
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