jindarren / music-vis

Music recommender visualizations

Music recommender visualizations

Introduction

This web app is used test different levels of user control of music recommender system built by web spotify API. The web app was implemented by express.js and jQuery.

Folder content

/bower_components

all dependent libraries and some pre-installed libraried in express

/model

configuration mongoose for mongo DB

/node_modules

installed libraies by npm

/music-vis/public/js/

this folder contains two main js files for the front-end page

data-vis.js

this js file is for controlling recommender UI and data communication with server

welcome.js

this file is for welcome page for evaluation

music-vis/public/stylesheets/

this folder contains two css files

style.css

this js file is for recommender UI style

welcome.css

this file is for welcome page for evaluation

music-vis/routes/

this is for back-end using a spotify-api wrapper

index.js

a router for system, a restulful API to call the services in recommender.js

recommender.js

recommender engine using the spotify-api wrapper

/music-vis

different pages powered by jade template

app.js

this is a script to start the app

How to deploy the app

Step 1

Make sure you have installed node and mongodb on you PC.

Step 2

replace the appKey and appSecret with yours generated from web spotify API page; and set your own callbackURL in index.js and recommender.js

Step 3

Start the app start mongodb in terminal by "mongod" start the app in terminal by tpying "node app.js"