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For people that love looking up the music catalog of artists they've recently discovered or already really love, Discolist is a user-friendly, minimal web application the stores all of this information in one place! With DiscoList you are able to look up the discography of all your favorite artists.
- Artist lookup - dynamically generate options based on search entry
- Music catalog view - see collection of entire artist discography
- Timeline view - see an artist's project creation history in chronological order
- Tracklist modal - view all the tracks included in album and click link to play
DiscoList is a web application that uses Spotify's API to collect data on each artists music catalog and serves this information on an interface inspired by Spotify’s web app design. The application is built with the following technologies:
If you would like to use DiscoList online, visit https://discolist.cyclic.app/.
To get a local copy of the application up and running follow these simple example steps.
Follow the steps below to set up the application locally.
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Create a Spotify account at www.spotify.com.
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Go to the Dashboard page on the Spotify Developer website and register a new application to recieve an API key and secret.
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Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/tdo95/discolist.git
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Install NPM packages
npm install
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Create an
.env
file and add your API key and secret as shown belowSPOTIFY_ID="ENTER YOUR SECRET" SPOTIFY_KEY="ENTER YOUR API KEY"
- To start the server, run the following command
Alternatively, you can run with nodemon
npm run start
npm run dev
- Navigate to the application using the url below
"localhost:3000"
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- Create Catalog view
- Create Timeline view
- Add tracklist modal for each album
- Add artist specific information (i.e. place of origin, birthday, age, government name) using Media Wiki API
Portfolio: www.github.com/tdo95