Strava Leader Board

This is a Strava Leader Board dashboard built with Laravel 8.x using CSS Flexbox.

Getting Started

The environment needed for this application to run is the same as the minimum spec needed by Laravel 8.x.

Clone the repo

Install PHP package dependencies

composer install

Setup configuration

cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate
php artisan webpush:vapid (for push notifications)

Setup database

touch database\database.sqlite
php artisan migrate

Setup cronjob - Add the following to your crontab file

crontab -e

* 5-22 * * * cd /path/to/repo && php artisan schedule:run

The cronjob will run every 15 minutes between 5 am and 11 pm.

Register an application with Strava's developer portal and update .env with the client_id and client_secret. Update the redirect URI entry to reflect the correct domain for your application.

Update the public push notification key within public\js\enable-push.js under applicationServerKey

Adding Athletes

To allow athletes to enrol with your leader board, set ALLOW_STRAVA_AUTH to true - make sure you set this to false when done otherwise anyone will be able to add them-selves to your board. Direct users to https://your-domain.com/strava/auth to register.

I wouldn't recommend using this for too many people as Strava have API rate limits which I'm not error handling for.

Sync with Strava

The cronjob you've created above will run every minute between the hours of 5am and 11pm. The strava:getavtivities artisan command is then run every 15 minutes (during minutes 0, 15, 30 and 45). This can be changed within the app\Console\kernel.php file.

You can manually sync with Strava by running php artisan strava:getactivities from the terminal.

You will also need to analyse the activities by running php artisan strava:analyseactivities which will update the stats used for the leader board. This will also send push notifications to users to let them know if there is a new leader.

Notes

I'm using the package codetoad\laravel-strava to talk to the Strav API, however, this doesn't currently support Laravel 8, so I'm using a fork I've created for now.

License

This dashboard is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.