groovesync

Setup

In backend/services/, add settings.py

client_secret = '<TouchTunes API-KEY>'

5 environment variables are needed for the database connection Add these to activate script in your virtual environment

export DB_USERNAME="<username of the database user>"
export DB_PASSWORD="<password of the database user>"
export DB_NAME="<name of the database>"
export SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID="<spotify client id>"
export SPOTIFY_SECRET_ID="<spotify secret id>"

Migrations:

# Before running migrations, make sure `backend/` is in PYTHON path
# by doing:
export PYTHONPATH='./'

# To run migrations
alembic upgrade head

# To create a migration
alembic revision -m '<name>'

To run Flask developement server:

# port 5000
python app.py

Data Structures

# in backend/services/main.py
location_songs = dict[Location -> dict[songId -> (count, playDate, artistId)]]

Deploying Back-End to Production

Deployed with nginx, gunicorn, & an AWS EC2 instance. Refer to here for more information on the installation process

On the instance, run Flask from backend/ with

gunicorn app:app -b localhost:8000