[Project proposal] spotify-tui

[Rigellute]

Project name: spotify-tui
Project details: Spotify for the terminal written in Rust

Short bio: I'm the author and maintainer of spotify-tui! In my day job, I'm a full stack software engineer building backends/frontends/infra and mobile apps (mostly in Typescript/nodejs/React/React Native/AWS etc.). I've been using Rust for around 3 years in various side projects, and honestly enjoy using Rust more than any other language!

Looking for: Basic Rust knowledge is all that's needed to solve a number of issues! spotify-tui has grown into a fairly large project but has greatly benefited from contributors of all skill levels. Most contributors (I believe) are fairly new to Rust but have had a large impact in fixing bugs/adding new features.

I will post some open issues and try to gauge the level of Rust knowledge required.

[Rigellute]

Some example issues, for different levels:

Issue

Rendering of Tickrate and Framerate a bit confusing #626.

Rust knowledge: basic

We could implement the proposed solution (updating the displayed string formatting). Or perhaps we could create a new cli argument (using clap) to explicitly set an FPS value.

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Issue

[Feature Request] Hide unplayable songs #718

Rust knowledge: basic

We can use the spotify API to filter our tracks that are playable or not

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Issue

Upgrade crates with breaking changes: tui, rand, cross-term.

Rust knowledge: intermediate

This one is more involved as it requires some knowledge of the breaking changes and where in spotify-tui they need fixing.

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Issue

Pagination of spotify responses is currently handled rather poorly throughout the app. Needing an abstraction to make it easier to work with.

Rust knowledge: advanced

[Hwatwasthat]

I'd be interested in working on this, I'd be happy to take the unplayable songs issue :) If I finish that I could hop onto other things too!

[MaxLuchs]

Im also interested in this. Sounds cool. Have basic Rust knowledge.

[MaxLuchs]

Do you have another issue for me where basic rust knowledge is sufficient? Maybe I'll try to upgrade those packages.

[elbart]

I'd be interested here, too. Basic rust knowledge is in place, I'd say.