I had a hard time deciding what I wanted to do this project on with so many ideas in my head. I knew that I wanted to at the very least work with an external API to show my users data from which they could choose from to write into the rails database. In the end I created a playlist app where users can browse songs using the Deezer api and create playlists using those songs.
I started this project by first creating the barebones for being able to search the Deezer API. I ran into CORS error problems doing this and nothing I was trying was working, finally I found a work-around by adding https://cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com/ to the start of my API fetch link. With this working I began building out the other features of the site. First I created all the files for the Rails backend, adding models and configuring the controllers to allow users to create playlists, and add songs to those playlists. Next I finished the rest of the front end. Users can search songs, add them to their playlists, and view playlists others have created. To finish the app I created a logo in Adobe Illustrator and added styling to make it look nice. I am really proud of this project and hope you like it too.
