jborrey/glue-fm

GlueFM Rails API backend.

GlueFM

Chat app built for sharing music efficiently.

Features

• Channels
• Threads
• Automatic translation of links for the user's music platform of choice (Spotify, YouTube & SoundCloud supported).
• Export of automatic playlists:
  • all tracks in channel
  • unheard tracks

Tech Stack

• RailsAPI
• RethinkDB
• Websocksets via ActionCable & Redis
• React for the web client

Development

# stand up service containers
docker-compose up

# setup DB - http://nobrainer.io/docs/db_management/
rake nobrainer:sync_schema
rake nobrainer:seed

# run the server
bin/rails s

Playing with Web Sockets

npm install -g wscat
wscat -c "ws://localhost:3000/cable"

Initial Implementation Plan:

1. Logout on User Icon
2. Initial template for a single channel.
3. Interface to write messages.
4. Track table, Link table + module to translate links between music providers.
5. Table for Listens (user-track listen state) + recording listens.
6. Export of playlists to music provider of choice.
7. Scripts for AWS deployment.
8. Multichannel
9. Design fixes.

Useful resources

• RailsAPI + WebSockets + React: https://medium.com/@dakota.lillie/using-action-cable-with-react-c37df065f296
• RailsAPI + RethinkDB + WebSockets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwF44oMOvJs
• RailsAPI + Cookie Auth + React: https://pragmaticstudio.com/tutorials/rails-session-cookies-for-api-authentication
• Hybrid Client/Server OAuth: https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/server-side-flow
• TODO (glue youtube link)

Thank you to the authors!