I started this project from a familiar problem: sports apps look simple at first, but they rarely stay simple. The moment you need leagues, fixtures, live scores, standings, teams, and player data in one place, the code can get scattered fast. Different pages end up fetching data in different ways, error handling becomes inconsistent, and the app turns into a collection of one-off API calls.
My goal with this starter was to keep that from happening. I wanted a clean Next.js foundation that could talk to Sportmicro through one reusable client, render server-side by default, and stay easy to extend as the product grows. If you want to see the finished project, View the repository.
What this starter is trying to solve
This is an open-source Next.js starter for sports applications powered by Sportmicro. The focus is not on flashy UI tricks. It’s on giving developers a practical base for building a sports app with live scores, fixtures, standings, teams, and player-statistics examples already wired into a sensible structure.
That matters because sports data apps usually move in phases:
