Spotify House Party

This is an app where users can host 'music rooms'. A host, using their Spotify account, can invite Guests to their room where they can vote to skip the host's currently playing song, or play/pause it.

Deployment

The live deployment of this project can be found here: https://house-party-djrt.herokuapp.com

Project Breakdown

Back-end: Django

• Defines the Room model to be used
• Manages the creation of room, and determines whether a given user session is the host of a room or not
• Run queries on the database

Spotify API

• Used to access host user's Spotify Account
• Data is collected on the currently playing song such as artist, length, and cover art
• Permissions are requested to allow app to play/pause the current song and to skip to the next Sogn on their queue

Front-end: React

• Communicates with the back-end to display user room information
• Calls the Spotify API to perform app features