austinlyon / slick

Slack for Music: provide real time event driven collaboration between users for synchronized music playback and DJ delegation

slick

Slack for Music: provide real time event driven collaboration between users for synchronized music playback and DJ delegation

##Overview ###Tech Stack

• React
• rollup (bundling)
• Socket.io
• Mocha
• Chai
• Supertest
• socket.io-client
• Node + Express

###Front-end

• built in React
• 4 different components <Main> <SongPlayer> <SongQueue> <Songs>
• <Main> is component where DOM event and socket event handling happens (ex: play, pause, onPlay socket emit events, etc..)
• <SongPlayer> is component where <audio> element is mounted and where audio playback events are listened to and events passed back up to <Main>
• <SongQueue> is container component to hold <Songs> components
• <Songs> is view component which displays song information in queue

###Back-end

• See simple chat application using Socket.io here http://socket.io/get-started/chat/ to get up to speed with how to use sockets
• There are 3 socket events
  • playCurrent: all client sockets emit this event when user triggers play on song player; all client sockets listen for this event to play current song
  • pauseCurrent: same as the playCurrent event except pauses the current song
  • songEnded: socket event dispatched when current song is done playing

##Getting Started

1. Get your own Soundcloud client id at http://soundcloud.com/you/apps/new and use in client-id.js file

2. Configure and define IP address of person hosting DJ room in main.js when instantiating <Slick> component

3. npm install

4. rollup -c to bundle up React source files

5. npm start to start server

rollup -c each time you make changes to client side react .js files to bundle files

##Features to Implement

• Chatroom UI
• Friends List UI
• User login with DB: persist user information for friends list / chat
• DJ power: only 1 person can change songs currently playing in chat room
• Data Persistence on server: save song list queue on server side to synchronize current playing song across users in chat room