This is a fun project for fellow Taylor Swift fans who like to complete lyrics. The project was originally a command line interface written in Python. Then it became a command line interface written in Rust (see the releases on this Github page). It has since turned into a web app built with React and Rust!
The project is now live at http://tslyriccompletion.com! Thanks to David from the Linux Users group at UCLA for helping me get this project deployed and answering my questions about things like apache and ports.
To run the code locally after cloning this repo, you will first need to set up a mysql database
manager. You will need to create a database called mydb, which can be done by running:
mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE mydband then:
mysql -u root -p mydb < ./mydb_dump.sqlwhere mydb_dump.sql is the sql dump file which can be found in the server directory.
You will also need to set up .env files in both the client and server directory. The .env file in the server directory will contain information about database credentials (see the README file in the sever directory). The .env file in the client directory will contain something like:
REACT_APP_AXIOS_BASE_URL=http://localhost:3000
The .env file is needed in the client because when I deploy this app at http://tslyriccompletion.com, I instead include:
REACT_APP_AXIOS_BASE_URL=http://tslyriccompletion.com/api/
Then, navigate to the server directory and run cargo run. In a separate terminal,
navigate to the client directory and run npm install followed by npm start
Please don't hesitate to contact me if these instructions are unclear. They're only meant to help me remember how to run this app in the future. I'd love to try and help if you're trying to run this app on your local machine!