Kliv Idrottsförening

Kliv Idrottsförening is a small youth judo club in Norsborg, Botkyrka — south of Stockholm. They run judo training for kids aged 7–12 and organize free holiday sports activities during school breaks. Their whole thing is "run by young people, for young people" — low-barrier, pressure-free sports as an alternative to the demanding structure of traditional Swedish clubs. Before this site, they had almost no online presence. The website is their public face: a homepage with an animated bento grid explaining their vision, a dedicated judo page with an image slider and their instructor's profile (Raja Fernando, 6th dan), a holiday activities page pulling events from Google Calendar, a contact page with an embedded map, and a newsletter signup. Behind the scenes there's an admin dashboard where the board can approve incoming calendar events, create new ones, and trigger email notifications to subscribers — all backed by Redis and Clerk auth.

The public site is built with server components by default, with client components for the interactive pieces — the bento grid animations, the image slider, expandable event cards, and the floating navbar. Content lives in a centralized config file so the board doesn't need to touch code to update text. On the backend, Google Calendar is the single source of truth for events. A Watch webhook notifies a Next.js API route when events change, the handler fetches recently-updated events and classifies anything created in the last 10 minutes as new. New events get stored in a Redis hash as pending. Admins authenticate through Clerk (one hardcoded email checked against an env var) and manage the queue from a tabbed dashboard — approve, edit, reject, or create events directly. Approving triggers Nodemailer to email every subscriber in a Redis set. The admin can also create events directly through the Google Calendar API with write scope, formatting descriptions with the same structured metadata.

The site is Kliv's entire digital presence — they had virtually nothing online before. The board can publish and manage events from the admin dashboard instead of coordinating through group chats, and subscribers get an email when something new goes up. For a small youth club with no budget for a CMS, the Google Calendar-as-database approach means they can keep using tools they already know while the website stays in sync automatically.