Technology Stack

This section provides an overview of the main technologies used in TornTicker and the reasons they were chosen.

Frontend

🖥️ React (Vite)

• Why? React is a modern, component-based JavaScript library that allows for efficient UI development and state management.
• Vite is used as the build tool because it provides: ✅ Fast development server with hot module replacement (HMR)
  ✅ Optimised production builds
  ✅ Easy configuration for modern JavaScript frameworks

🎨 React-Bootstrap

• Why? Provides pre-built, responsive UI components that align with Bootstrap’s styling system.
• Benefits: ✅ Speeds up development with ready-to-use components
  ✅ Maintains a clean, consistent UI
  ✅ Easily customisable with CSS & Bootstrap utilities

Backend

🚀 FastAPI

• Why? FastAPI is a high-performance Python framework for building APIs.
• Key Advantages: ✅ Asynchronous support for handling multiple API requests efficiently
  ✅ Automatic OpenAPI documentation
  ✅ Fast execution speeds, comparable to Node.js

🔒 Authentication

• Uses Torn API keys for authenticating requests securely.
• Implements caching to reduce unnecessary API calls.

Database

🗄️ MongoDB

• Why? NoSQL database optimised for flexible, document-based storage.
• Key Advantages: ✅ Efficient JSON-like data storage (BSON)
  ✅ Supports high scalability for large datasets
  ✅ Indexes & TTL (Time-to-Live) support to auto-expire outdated data

External Services

☁️ Torn API

• Why? Provides real-time game data such as user stats.
• Rate Limits: API calls are limited per minute, so caching is implemented to minimise requests.

☁️ Torion API

• Why? Additional external service for limited data access.

Development & Deployment Tools

📂 Git & GitHub

• Why? Version control with structured commit history.
• Benefits: ✅ Branching strategy for organised development
  ✅ GitHub Actions (future CI/CD setup)

Summary

Technology	Purpose	Why Chosen?
React (Vite)	Frontend UI	Fast, modular development
React-Bootstrap	UI Styling	Prebuilt, responsive components
FastAPI	Backend API	Fast, async, OpenAPI support
MongoDB	Database	NoSQL, scalable, TTL support
Torn API	External Data	Provides live game stats
Torion API	External Data	Provides additional game stats