angery reacts is a quick web-app that I spun up that runs sentiment analysis on song lyrics: essentially, it'll scan song lyrics word by word, tagging how "positive" or "negative" they are, and then summing those weights to give a final answer. This approach is actually quite inaccurate: it doesn't look at phrases, adjectives, or other important NLP concepts that I don't really understand. However, it's a pretty fun tool to play around with!
This is actually split into a frontend and a backend, and you'll need both in order to run the web app. This repo contains the frontend (written with React, Bulma, sentiment, and sanitize-html), which sends requests to the backend, a simple flask server that sends requests to the Genius API to grab song lyrics and other metadata.
Before we start any setup, I'll note that you'll need to set two environment variables: GENIUS_API_KEY, which is your client secret from the Genius API, and REACT_APP_ANGERY_REACTS_SERVER_URL, which is the URL to the backend server. First, head to the Genius API and pick up your client secret; without it, the backend won't work.
As previously noted, you'll need both a copy of the frontend and the backend to run this app. First, let's set up the backend. In order to run the backend, you'll need access to a shell and Python 3 installed on your system.
$ git clone https://github.com/mattxwang/angery-reacts-backend.git
$ cd angery-reacts-backend
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt
$ python3 server.py
* Serving Flask app "server" (lazy loading)
* Environment: production
WARNING: This is a development server. Do not use it in a production deployment.
Use a production WSGI server instead.
* Debug mode: on
* Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)Whatever address follows after Running on is the value of REACT_APP_ANGERY_REACTS_SERVER_URL: be sure to set that environment variable before you set up and run your frontend.
To run the frontend, you'll need access to a shell, and Node installed on your system (I developed this with v10). CRA also prefers yarn, though npm is also fine.
$ git clone https://github.com/mattxwang/angery-reacts.git
$ cd angery-reacts
$ yarn install # or npm install
$ yarn start # or npm start
Compiled successfully!
You can now view angery-reacts in the browser.
Local: http://localhost:3000/
On Your Network: ...
Note that the development build is not optimized.
To create a production build, use yarn build.A window should pop up automatically with the frontend running! If you run into any issues, feel free to drop me an issue and I'll do my best to help you out.
Instead of using Travis CI like I normally do, I opted to use the gh-pages npm package. Configure the homepage key in package.json so React will know what URL to route from, and change the environment variable prepended to npm run deploy and npm run predeploy - then just do npm run deploy or yarn run deploy - everything should work out of the box!