SpotLight

SpotLight is a web app which uses spotify developer APIs and lists your most listened songs, albums, artists and genres.

Tech Stack

Setting Up

• Fork the repo to your account.
• Clone the repo to your local computer git clone <fork url>
• Make sure Node js is installed on your machine (Node >= 14.0.0 and npm >= 5.6)
• cd into the project directory and run npm install
• Login or create an account at the Spotify Developers Dashboard.
• Click on the Create an App button in the spotify developers dashboard. Fill the details and submit.
• Note down the Client ID of the app just created.
• Go to your app Edit Settings and add http://localhost:3000 as a redirect URI.
• Create a file named .env.local at the project root directory with the following content:

REACT_APP_CLIENT_ID=<YOUR CLIENT ID>

Replace <YOUR CLIENT ID> with the one you got from the spotify console.

• Now run npm start
• Open http://localhost:3000 on a browser.

Folder Structure

├── src/
    ├── Pages/              Code for the pages
    ├── components/         UI Components
    ├── config/             API configs
    ├── styles/             CSS Files

Resources

• This project uses the Spotify Web API to get all the spotify related data. You can find more about it at the official Spotify Web API documentation.

• To get started with React JS or brush up your skills, check out the official React JS Documentation.