Vinyl.it

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This Node.js Houston project will serve as an academic playground for exploring the advantages of node.js in the world of mobile web apps. Utilizing a robust pre-existing API and database (discogs.com) we are afforded a solid foundation to build our solutions to the problems with blurring the lines between native and web apps… oh and it’s gonna be cool.

About Discogs

“We're on a mission to build the biggest and most comprehensive music database and marketplace. Imagine a site with discographies of all labels, all artists, all cross-referenced, and an international marketplace built off of that database. It's for the love of music, and we're getting closer every day.”

Discogs API: https://www.discogs.com/developers/

Discogs official Node.js client library: https://github.com/bartve/disconnect

Each vinyl.it branch will explore various front end UI and node.js frameworks as we become interested in them. However all flavors of vinyl.it will take full advantage of the complete Discogs.com API features which are listed here but not limited to:

Database Omni-Search for:

• Releases
• Release Credits
• Artists
• Label
• Track
• Year
• Cat. No.
• Genre
• Style

Discogs User oAuth handshake for gaining access to standard CRUD operations for

• User Profile
• User Collections
• Want Lists
• Market Place listings

Tasks

Based on June 23rd CodeNode event.

• Sean - Use Cases listed out and general mobile web application introduction documented.
• Christine - UI/UX Wireframes
• Matt - Initial serverside scaffold setup
• Alan - Help with logistics and coordiantion of moving pieces, configure and setup Trello board for future task tracking

Communications

Chat will take place at NodeJs Houston's slack account under the code-vinyl channel.

• Click here to register to the slack group
• Jump into the Slack one of many ways:
• Click here to log into the slack group via browser
• Click here to download slack for Mac
• Click here to download slack for Windows
• Click here to download slack for iOS
• Click here to download slack for Android

Collaborators

• Sean Suggs
• Christine Pham
• Matt Hall
• Alan Lee
• David Loop (resident vinyl expert)