tournament-brackets

Reusable single-elimination tournament brackets. Vanilla ESM core, optional jQuery adapter, CSS-variable themes. Display-only (read-only) — winners come from your data.

Live demo: alicamargo.github.io/tournament-brackets (jQuery · React · Angular · Vue)

Evolved from jquery-brackets. This project is framework-agnostic; thin React, Vue, and Angular adapters are available.

Install

npm install @ali.camargo/tournament-brackets

Usage (ESM)

import { Brackets } from '@ali.camargo/tournament-brackets';
import '@ali.camargo/tournament-brackets/style.css';

const el = document.querySelector('#bracket');
const api = Brackets.create(el, {
  rounds,
  titles: true,           // or string[]
  thirdPlace: true,       // optional 3rd-place game (semifinal losers)
  radius: 8,              // 0 = square corners
  matchWidth: 200,        // column width in px (optional)
  roundNav: true,         // clickable rounds; bracket starts from selected stage
  theme: 'default',       // 'default' | 'dark'
  onChange(state) {
    console.log(state);
  },
});

api.getState();
api.setRounds(rounds);
api.destroy();

Live setRounds updates reuse the existing .jb-root element and replace its contents. Any sibling nodes in the mount element are cleared during the paint.

TypeScript

import { Brackets, create } from '@ali.camargo/tournament-brackets';
import type { BracketsOptions, Match, Player } from '@ali.camargo/tournament-brackets/types';
import '@ali.camargo/tournament-brackets/style.css';

const options: BracketsOptions = { rounds, theme: 'dark' };
const api = Brackets.create(el, options);

Types also ship on the main entry (import type { BracketsOptions } from '@ali.camargo/tournament-brackets').

Internals use a layered class architecture (services + controller); the public API above is unchanged.

Rounds data

const rounds = [
  [
    {
      player1: { name: 'Player 1', id: 1, winner: true, url: 'https://example.com' },
      player2: { name: 'Player 2', id: 2 },
    },
  ],
  [{ player1: { name: 'Player 1', id: 1 } }],
];

Players use id. Non–power-of-two first rounds are padded with byes.

{ name: 'J. Sinner', id: 1, image: 'https://example.com/it.svg' }
// Image column auto-appears when any player has image; others get a default avatar.

Match scores

// Football / single result — shown on each player row
{ player1: {…}, player2: {…}, score: [2, 1] }

// Tennis / multi-period — each player's set scores on their row
{ player1: {…}, player2: {…}, score: [[6, 4], [3, 6], [7, 5]], scoreType: 'sets' }
// → Player 1: 6 3 7   |   Player 2: 4 6 5

// Tie-break / extra (nested pair) — superscript on each player row
{
  score: [
    [[6, 7], [7, 9]], // → 6⁷ / 7⁹
    [[7, 6], [7, 2]], // → 7⁷ / 6²
    [6, 3],
    [6, 4],
  ],
  scoreType: 'sets',
}

// Or per-player
{ player1: { name: 'A', score: 2 }, player2: { name: 'B', score: 1 } }

Match status badge

{ player1: {…}, player2: {…}, status: 'in_progress' }
// scheduled | in_progress | final | retired | walkover
// Auto: winner → final, score without winner → in_progress, else scheduled

jQuery adapter

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.7.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="dist/jquery-adapter.umd.cjs"></script>

import $ from 'jquery';
import '@ali.camargo/tournament-brackets/jquery';
import '@ali.camargo/tournament-brackets/style.css';

$('.brackets').brackets({
  rounds,
  titles: true,
  theme: 'default',
});

const api = $('.brackets').data('brackets');

See the jQuery demo (or demo/jquery.html locally).

Usage (React)

Peer dependencies: react and react-dom >= 17.

import { useRef } from 'react';
import { Brackets } from '@ali.camargo/tournament-brackets/react';
import type { BracketsApi } from '@ali.camargo/tournament-brackets';
import '@ali.camargo/tournament-brackets/style.css';

function Tournament({ rounds }) {
  const apiRef = useRef<BracketsApi>(null);

  return (
    <Brackets
      ref={apiRef}
      rounds={rounds}
      theme="dark"
      titles
      thirdPlace
      roundNav
      onChange={(state) => console.log(state)}
    />
  );
}

Props mirror vanilla BracketsOptions, plus className / style on the host element. The ref exposes getState, setRounds, setViewFromRound, and destroy.

Keep rounds referentially stable (for example, memoize derived data) when onChange updates parent state; a new rounds identity triggers a live setRounds update. viewFromRound is an initial and imperative-synced value rather than a fully controlled prop: round-nav clicks may diverge from it until you pass a new value or call setViewFromRound through the ref.

See the React demo (or demo/react.html locally).

Usage (Angular)

Peer dependency: @angular/core >= 17 (standalone apps).

import { Component, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
import { BracketsComponent } from '@ali.camargo/tournament-brackets/angular';
import type { BracketsState } from '@ali.camargo/tournament-brackets';
import '@ali.camargo/tournament-brackets/style.css';

@Component({
  standalone: true,
  imports: [BracketsComponent],
  template: `
    <tb-brackets
      [rounds]="rounds"
      theme="dark"
      [titles]="true"
      [thirdPlace]="true"
      [roundNav]="true"
      (change)="onChange($event)"
      (roundChange)="onRoundChange($event)"
    />
  `,
})
export class TournamentPage {
  @ViewChild(BracketsComponent) brackets!: BracketsComponent;
  rounds = /* ... */;

  onChange(state: BracketsState) {
    console.log(state);
  }

  onRoundChange(index: number) {
    console.log(index);
  }
}

Inputs mirror vanilla BracketsOptions, plus class / style on the host wrapper. Outputs: change, roundChange. @ViewChild(BracketsComponent) exposes getState, setRounds, setViewFromRound, and destroy.

See the Angular demo (or demo/angular.html locally).

Usage (Vue)

Peer dependency: vue >= 3.5.

<script setup>
import { ref } from 'vue'
import { Brackets } from '@ali.camargo/tournament-brackets/vue'
import '@ali.camargo/tournament-brackets/style.css'

const api = ref(null)
</script>

<template>
  <Brackets
    ref="api"
    :rounds="rounds"
    theme="dark"
    :titles="true"
    :third-place="true"
    :round-nav="true"
    @change="onChange"
    @round-change="onRoundChange"
  />
</template>

Props mirror vanilla BracketsOptions (minus callbacks), plus class / className / style on the host element. Emits: change, roundChange. The template ref exposes getState, setRounds, setViewFromRound, and destroy.

Keep rounds referentially stable when @change updates parent state; a new rounds identity triggers a live setRounds update. viewFromRound is an initial and imperative-synced value rather than a fully controlled prop (same caveat as React).

See the Vue demo (or demo/vue.html locally).

Options

Option	Default	Description
rounds	required	Nested match arrays
titles	false	true for auto labels, or string[]
thirdPlace	false	Show 3rd-place match (semifinal losers); or pass a match object to seed it. Also data-third-place
radius	8	Corner radius in px (0 = square). Also data-radius
matchWidth	—	Match card column width in px (or CSS length). Also data-match-width. Default 168px / 200px with scores
showScores	'auto'	true | false | 'auto' (show when any match has score)
roundNav	false	Clickable round pills; late stages collapse into “Semifinals & Championship”. Also data-round-nav
viewFromRound	0	Initial stage index when roundNav is on
theme	'default'	'default' | 'dark'
labels	Round / Semifinal / Final / Champion / 3rd Place	Auto title strings
onChange	—	Fired after setRounds / data updates

Theming

.jb-root {
  --jb-bg: #f4f6f8;
  --jb-surface: #fff;
  --jb-border: #c5ced6;
  --jb-text: #1a2330;
  --jb-accent: #0b6e4f;
  --jb-winner: #0b6e4f;
  --jb-radius: 8px;
}

Motion

Short left-to-right entrance on paint (including round-nav changes). Matches with status: 'in_progress' show a soft badge pulse. Disabled under prefers-reduced-motion: reduce.

Scripts

pnpm install
pnpm test
pnpm dev          # vanilla, jQuery, React, Angular, and Vue demos (/vue.html)
pnpm build        # dist/ ESM + UMD + CSS
pnpm build:demo   # static demo site (GitHub Pages)

Roadmap

Thin framework adapters on the same core (no UI rewrite):

1. React — available via @ali.camargo/tournament-brackets/react
2. Vue — available via @ali.camargo/tournament-brackets/vue
3. Angular — available via @ali.camargo/tournament-brackets/angular

Predecessor

Active development moved here from jquery-brackets. The old repo remains as a historical reference.

Author

• Ali Camargo