About GlideComp
About me
I want to learn from better pilots, and ultimately out compete them!
Gliding competitions are a unique experience where you can fly in the same air as the best pilots in the world. After the day's task, you can talk to them, and analyse their flight data.
I built GlideComp to figure out which line they took, how fast they flew, how well they climbed, and ultimately how they scored in the task!
— Tushar Pokle (Summer 2026)
About the tooling
GlideComp would not have been possible without these libraries, tools and resources
Mapping & Geospatial
- Mapbox GL JS — Interactive vector maps
- Leaflet — Lightweight map library
- Turf.js — Geospatial analysis (distance, bearing, bounding boxes)
- Threebox — Three.js integration for Mapbox GL
3D & Rendering
- Three.js — 3D graphics library
UI & Styling
- KaTeX — Fast math typesetting
- Tailwind CSS — Utility-first CSS framework
- shadcn/ui — UI components, built on Base UI
- Fontsource / Atkinson Hyperlegible Next — Self-hosted web font designed for readability
Backend & Auth
- Hono — Web framework for Cloudflare Workers
- Better Auth — Authentication library
- Kysely — Type-safe SQL query builder
Build & Platform
- Vite — Build tool and dev server
- Astro — Static site builder for the content pages
- TypeScript — Typed JavaScript
- Bun — JavaScript runtime and package manager
- Cloudflare — Pages, Workers, and D1 hosting
AI
- Claude Code — AI coding assistant by Anthropic
Design Resources
- Free SVG Backgrounds and Patterns by SVGBackgrounds.com — SVG background patterns