The inspiration for AutoDJ came from the frustration that insues whenever I'm with a few friends and we can't decide what music to play. AutoDJ is an app that lets you join a lobby with your friends, add songs to a queue, and then vote on them. The songs with the most votes get played first, and the songs with the least get played last. Mostly this is just an excuse so that when someone complains about my music taste I can say they should have downvoted it and maybe it wouldn't have played.
AutoDJ uses plain old React for the frontend, and NodeJS and MongoDB for the backend. The plan is to transition to React Native in the future for better mobile support, but that's still a while out.
If you want to run AutoDJ on your machine, the following steps should get you up and running fairly quickly (Eventually the site will be hosted on AutoDJ.io)
- Clone the repo
- Navigate to the directory and run
npm installin the root directory
- Note that you might need to run
npm installagain in the client subfolder, but not running that on setup didn't seem to affect anything on my machine during testing, but ymmv
- Go back to the root directory and run
npm run dev. By default, this will start a server atlocalhost:5000and run the page atlocalhost:3000(so you should type inlocalhost:3000in your browser if you want to go to the site)
That's it! You should be able to click the Login with Spotify button to get authenticated, and then you're good to go!
Feel free to contact me @dylan-cancelliere if you have any questions, or open an issue/pr if you want to help out.