An application to search for and find a song by it's lyric. The application collects information from external APIs Spotify and Musixmatch.
The application is using react framework and external libraries:
Clone project at https://github.com/Aminaamin123/Grupp10-projekt.git
- Get credentials from Spotify to get a token to send with the request.
- Get a key from musixmatch to add to your request.
- Team members credentials are currently used for project evaluation/grading.
'macOS' $ brew install node
'Ubuntu' $ sudo apt install nodejs npm
'Windows' https://nodejs.org/en/#download
On your terminal, go in to the directory of the cloned folder, than do a npm install .
Go to https://cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com/ and click the button to get temporary access to use the proxy server.
5. Build and preview the site locally at http://localhost:3000
npm start - CTRL-C (to stop the run)
We chose to work with React for this project. All of the team members used React for the previous assignment and felt that there were still a lot to learn about React. On the job market there seemed to be a high demand for experience using React. It is widely used with lots of examples and help online for when we needed that and it played a part in us choosing React.
Large framework with what we perceived as a steep learning curve. The amount of features seemed excessive in relation to the scale of our project and we wanted to quickly get started and have the application up and running.
If we didn´t use React we probably would have chosen Vue. In relation to React it seemed to have roughly the same learning curve and complexity. Usage of Vue is on the rise but not quite on the level of React (for the time being). However, this also includes that Vue has a smaller community than React and may therefore lack some plugins. The deciding factor to use React was the amount of online example and guidance in favor of React and the teams prior usage of React led us to feel more comfortable continuing use and learn React.