Spotify API Artist Search

[dmartinezgamboa]

My goal was to practice authenticating and requesting information from an API (Spotify in this case) and more back-end focused implementations.

The local server instance authenticates with Spotify and receives bearer token. In browser, user queries an artist which gets sent as a GET request to local server. Local server then requests information using query params & bearer token to Spotify, which local server then sends back to client (data is printed to console).

The intention was to keep client secrets and tokens away from client. Client hits your server and the server makes API calls to Spotify. Client only receives information.

I had alot of fun coding this and I appreciate the prompt. Due to getting this submitted in a timely manner, I wish I could have focused on some more features such as running the app in a container & testing frameworks. Both of which I have implemented in a separate repository (if you would like to see more of my work):
https://github.com/dmartinezgamboa/roastme-bot

Features:

• node.js (express)
• async/await patterns
• styling/javascript to support html
• repository features code linting and enforcement (eslint & prettier)

Wishlist (If I had more time):

• Run application in Docker container.
• More styling and actual UI/UX for presentation of data.
• Creation of routers/controllers modules to clean up server.js
• Testing framework. For now the application consists of two Spotify API call which I don't believe I need to test. With more routers testing would make more sense.
• Bearer token expires after one hour, would like to implement logic to check if expired & refresh token.

[SpencerKaiser]

@dmartinezgamboa can you post your email here? I can't seem to find your resume within your repo.

[dmartinezgamboa]

Hi @SpencerKaiser I have attached my resume.
My email is:
dmartinezgamboa@gmail.com
Software_Resume-Cover_Combined_Martinez-Gamboa.pdf

[SpencerKaiser]

Great, I'll follow up via email shortly!