One game, several screens
Everyone can join from a phone, submit a score, and watch the same leaderboard update. This matters mostly because nobody wants to pass one phone around the table all night.
Mechanical engineer · coder · curious builder · Ithaca, NY
Coding projects — 03
Score Tracker
A live scorekeeper for the moments when a piece of paper works fine, but obviously I made a website instead.
Notes
The story so far
How it stays live
FastAPI manages the players and WebSockets push each change to the connected screens. There is also a larger desktop scoreboard for the room, mostly so nobody can claim they did not see the score.
The useful little details
Scores can go up, go down, or be corrected after someone notices a mistake. The server also works without the desktop display, so the whole system does not depend on the fanciest setup.
View the Score Tracker repositoryIn practice
The project, running.
Real captures from the working project, kept alongside the decisions and lessons behind it.
