giflyst-backend

Spotify API Web Auth

Forked from https://github.com/spotify/web-api-auth-examples

How to start

1. Clone this repository

2. Install package dependencies using npm i

3. Make sure to register application in Spotify developer's app https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/applications

4. Setup local environment variable for node application using dotenv

5. Set your CLIENT_ID and CLIENT_SECRET

6. On line 108, FRONTEND_URI should point to the server of your application. If you clone from Giflyst frontend, you should not change anything.

7. When everything is ready, run npm start and it will run the backend in http://localhost:8888/

Deploy to heroku

1. From your command line, create heroku app.

heroku login
heroku create app_name

2. Create variables in your heroku app. This is how to do it.

3. Add variables for :

SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID
SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET
REDIRECT_URI
FRONTEND_URI

4. To deploy to heroku, make sure you have added your application in your own git repository.

git push heroku master