Karaoke Flow

by Ben Turner (@Xeus)

• Demo: http://karaokeflow.herokuapp.com/
• Github: https://github.com/Xeus/Karaoke-Flow

Description

Project for John Schimmel's Dynamic Web Development class at NYU-ITP.

• DWD Notes: http://itpwebclass.herokuapp.com/

Party game. People get 5 minutes to create rhymes from a prompt of 2 common rap topics. Then when time's up, someone has to perform the song and should be judged on his/her flow!

Installation

Open your terminal/shell/command prompt. Make sure you have Node.js installed.

• http://nodejs.org/

Clone the repository. Type git clone git@github.com:Xeus/Karaoke-Flow.git in the parent directory you wish to install ./Karaoke-Flow to.

See package.json for dependencies. Type npm install to install them. Uses MongoDB and the Heroku toolbelt.

• MongoDB: http://www.mongodb.org/downloads
• Heroku toolbelt: https://toolbelt.heroku.com/

Set up your .env file to include your MONGOLAB_URI variable, which has your user/pass to connect to MongoDB. Your .env will also hold a variable SECRETSTRING which salts your user db. So the .env file will look like this:

MONGOLAB_URI=mongodb://user:pass@host:port/dbname
SECRETSTRING=yourstring

Type foreman start in the ./Karaoke-Flow directory to start up the node.js process. This is needed so node.js can access the .env file.

Connect to http://localhost:5000 to get your flow started! Or see an online demo at http://karaokeflow.herokuapp.com/ with a populated db.

Dependencies

package.json:

{ "name": "Karaoke-Flow",
    "version": "0.8.0",
    "dependencies": {
        "express": "2.5.6",
        "ejs": "latest",
        "mongoose" : "2.5.6",
        "request" : "latest",
        "express": "2.5.8",
        "mongodb" : "0.9.6-7",
        "connect-mongodb": ">= 1.1.3",
        "bcrypt" : "0.4.1",
        "passport": "0.1.7",
        "passport-local": "0.1.2",
        "underscore": ""
    } }

Also thanks to:

• John Schimmel's Dynamic Web Dev code
• Dejan Jacimovic's countdown JavaScript code
• Thomas Fuchs' Keymaster JavaScript code

Changes

01 May 12: Added more helpful comments/docs, updated README.md.

TODO:

• fix gap in looped beat tracks (HTML5 bug?)
• duplicate topics in flow metadata need to be fixed
• user account page needs to be indented
• insert choruses
• insert random rappers' rhymes
• add more phat beats (from Raj?)
• hook up to microphone & beat machine & recorder?