Spotify Party App

Description

Spotify Party App is an interactive web application that allows users to join or create music listening parties. Users can view the current song being played, and after a set number of skip votes, the song will automatically skip to the next one.

Features

• Join existing music parties with a unique code.
• Create new music parties and customize skip vote settings.
• Real-time updates on the current song being played.
• Interactive voting system for skipping songs.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure you have met the following requirements:

• You have installed the latest version of Node.js and npm.
• You have installed Python. Download it from python.org.
• You have a <Windows/Linux/Mac> machine.

Installing Spotify Party App

To install Spotify Party App, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository: Open a terminal (Mac) or command prompt/PowerShell (Windows) and run the following command to clone the repository. Replace YOUR_REPOSITORY_URL with the actual URL of your GitHub repository. git clone YOUR_REPOSITORY_URL

2. Navigate to the Project Directory: After cloning, navigate to the project directory: cd name-of-the-repository/frontend

3. Install Node Dependencies: Within the project directory, run: npm install

Running Spotify Party App

On Mac:

1. cd into music_controller: cd music_controller

2. Run the Python Server: python3 ./manage.py runserver This starts the Django server on http://127.0.0.1:8000/

3. Starting the Development Server for Frontend: In a new terminal tab/window, cd into frontend: cd frontend npm run dev

Screenshots

This app does have a dynamic gradient background with randomized colors so the colors may vary.

Contact

All of my contact info needed is in my github bio.

Acknowledgments

• This was my first Django and Spotify API project, it was a lot of fun and a valuable learning experience
• Thanks to Tech With Tim on Youtube for the Python tutorial