Emotion-Based Music Recommendation Docs

Getting Started - Clone and Setup

Have Python3 and NodeJS installed.
Acquire developer access keys to the following APIs: Twitter, Spotify, & IBM-Watson -Clone the repository into a new folder called 'ebmr', then move into the 'ebmr' folder and open the directory in your preferred editor

git clone https://github.com/tamargoadam/emotion-based-music-recommendation ebmr
cd ebmr
code

Change the environment variables in 'sample.env' and rename the file to '.env'
Install pipenv and then use pipenv to install the requirements for this project.

pip install pipenv
pipenv install

Move into the client server directory and then install the front-end dependencies.

cd client
npm install

Within a terminal window, navigate to the project's root directory, 'ebmr'.
Start the backend Flask server from within pipenv's shell virtual environment.

pipenv shell
python server/api/routes.py

Open a new terminal window, and navigate to the project's root directory.
Move into the client folder, and then run the front end server in development mode

npm run dev

At this point, you will now be able to access the service and create playlists from localhost:8080/

[requires]
python_version = "3.x"