Beatcamp

Beatcamp is a single-page RESTful web application for music sharing created with Ruby on Rails and React-Redux.

• Features
  • Sign up, log in, and log out
  • Create and edit albums
  • Upload music files and images
  • Responsive music player

Back End Technologies

• Ruby on Rails
• Amazon S3 as a CDN for mutable uploaded user files (images and music)
• Amazon CloudFront as a CDN for static content (JS and CSS)
• PostgreSQL (database)
• Deployed on a Heroku cloud server
• TagLib for detecting metadata from user uploaded music
• Custom modified Heroku buildpack for TagLib
• ImageMagick for efficiently resizing images for different use cases, reducing download sizes
• RESTful API for use with AJAX requests

Front End Technologies

• React
• Redux
• BCrypt (authorization)
• AJAX for communication with RESTful JSON API
• Webpack for JS minification
• Google Analytics for collecting and analyzing user behavior metadata