Mancini Events Platform

A fully featured golf tournament and membership management platform built exclusively with SvelteKit for performance, maintainability, and modern UX.
This project powers Mancini Events, an established golf event brand, delivering a seamless experience for players, organizers, and administrators alike — from registration and payment to event results and content updates.

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Overview

Mancini Events is a unified digital platform designed to automate and simplify golf event management.
It merges registration, payment, content management, and communication into a single full-stack SvelteKit application, eliminating the need for separate backend services while maintaining strong type safety, speed, and resilience through the SvelteKit runtime.

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Key Features

• Tournament Management – Admins can create, schedule, and manage events with participant tracking, limits, and live results.
• Membership System – Handles renewals, authentication, and tier-based benefits with secure session handling.
• Integrated Payments – Stripe checkout for events, merchandise, and memberships, with automatic webhook reconciliation.
• Dynamic Event Pages – Content-driven event pages, results, and photo galleries pulled directly from database models.
• Admin Tools – Back-office dashboard with real-time analytics, event exports, and newsletter campaigns.
• Email Campaigns – Transactional and marketing emails powered by custom HTML templates.
• Responsive Design – Mobile-first approach ensuring smooth UX across all devices.
• Optimized Delivery – Leveraging Vercel edge runtime and SvelteKit’s built-in SSR for sub-second loads.

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Technical Architecture

• Framework: Full-stack SvelteKit with TypeScript
• ORM & Database: Drizzle ORM + PostgreSQL
• Auth: Lucia Auth with session and token support
• Payments: Stripe API (checkout + webhooks)
• File Storage: Vercel Blob for media uploads
• Deployment: Vercel with CI/CD via GitHub Actions
• Email Delivery: Custom transactional templates (registrations, confirmations, updates)
• Animations: GSAP for smooth scroll and interactive visual transitions

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Performance & Reliability

• Edge-Optimized Delivery: Deployed globally with Vercel’s edge network
• Average API Latency: ~200ms from anywhere worldwide
• Lighthouse Scores:
  • Performance: 99
  • Accessibility: 100
  • SEO: 100
• SEO Optimization: Server-rendered metadata, Open Graph tags, and schema markup
• Analytics Integration: Real-time event engagement and user behavior tracking

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Design & Branding

The design direction for Mancini Events emphasizes elegance, clarity, and prestige — reflecting the professionalism of its golf clientele.
Utilizing GSAP-driven animations, subtle motion design, and a refined color palette of deep greens, soft golds, and whites, the platform projects both energy and exclusivity.

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Results & Impact

• Reduced manual event management time by 60%
• Boosted event registration completion rate by 34%
• Unified CRM, payments, and CMS into a single SvelteKit app
• Seamless user experience with high mobile retention and repeat registration

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Technologies Used

Layer	Technology
Framework	SvelteKit + TypeScript
Database	PostgreSQL (Drizzle ORM)
Authentication	Lucia Auth
Payments	Stripe API
Hosting	Vercel Edge Functions
Email	Custom HTML templates
Styling	TailwindCSS + GSAP Animations
CI/CD	GitHub Actions

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Summary

The Mancini Events Platform demonstrates the full capabilities of SvelteKit as a production-grade full-stack framework.
Its seamless integration of payments, CMS, authentication, and event automation showcases how performance, design, and maintainability can coexist in a single, elegantly engineered web application.