Listen: Album and Music Portfolio

SE-498-01 Software Engineering Capstone; LAMP

1. contributors;

Daisy Fernandez-Reyes'25

role: UX/UI Design Engineering, Frontend Development
email: fernandezreyes@chapman.edu
git: daisyb3ll

Rory Sullivan'25

role: Database Engineering, Backend Development
email: rosullivan@chapman.edu
git: rosullivan2

Sarah Yoon'25

role: Database Engineering, Backend Development
email: saryoon@chapman.edu
git: sarah-yoon

2. Project Proposal

Listen: Album and Music Portfolio, is our Software Engineering Capstone project in which we will be developing LAMP, a social media platform for album reviewing.

Source Files

diagrams

• prototype on figma

frontend

functionality

documentation:

• README.md
• proposal
• feature summary database:

known runtime/compilaiton errors

4. references;

• node.js and mongodb installation guide by Ijeoma Igboagu on FreeCodeCamp

5. instructions for collaborators

1. clone the repository

git clone "https://github.com/daisyb3ll/LAMP.git"

2. install dependencies

before running make sure you have these installed:

Required Packages

Dependency	Version	Description
express	^4.18.2	Web framework for Node.js
mongoose	^7.0.0	MongoDB ODM for managing the database
dotenv	^16.0.3	Loads environment variables from .env
axios	^1.3.4	Handles HTTP requests to Spotify API
ejs	^3.1.9	Template engine for rendering views

install dependencies

npm install

3. create .env file

🚨 ABSOLUTELY NEVER EVER COMMIT THIS TO GIT 🚨
inside project root folder create file name .env
ask daisy for credential info
make sure to add it to .gitignore!

4. run server

node server.js

5. test api

test api by running on local machine http://localhost:3000/save-top-tracks

project structure

project structure should look like this

/LAMP
│── .vscode
    └── settings.json
│── models/             # Database schemas
│── node_modules/       # Dependencies (not committed, install)
│── public/             # Static files (CSS, JS)
│── routes              # API route handlers
│── views/              # EJS templates
│── .env                # Environment variables (ignored *dm daisy)
│── .gitignore          # Files to ignore in Git
│── package-lock.json   # locks specific versionsn of dependencies
│── package.json        # Dependency management
│── README.md           # Documentation
│── server.js           # Main server file

6. test UI

run this on the terminal: http://localhost:3000 user: flappy password: bird