Description

Hackatjon v2 is a hackathon project my team and I built for the Digital Proof Hackathon (December 2024) at the Automotive Campus in Helmond, The Netherlands. We chose Challenge B: create a real-time single-page dashboard using a dataset with around 70 columns of information.

A big challenge was that we were told all variables were relevant, so we couldn’t just hide most of the dataset. We had to build a solution that could handle a lot of data and still stay fast and understandable during a live demo. The result worked well: we won the audience award.

My role (Backend)

My main responsibility in this project was the backend. I built and maintained the API that the dashboard depended on, and I worked on the data layer so the app could store and serve the dataset reliably.

The backend was built with Express.js + TypeScript and used an SQL database to store the data we received. The frontend (built by my teammate Izaak) was a Svelte + TypeScript SPA that used Axios to communicate with the backend.