Jam Session - Live

Jam Session a multi user collaborative platform where you can live code music in a web browser in real time. You can start live app by clicking here.

Folder Structure:

frontend/app : contains all of our react files
backend/server: contains a Flask server for testing
images/wikis: assets for wikis
jamsession_core : files to start the core services using Docker

Local Development:

• Clone repo into the local device

• Get inside the folder you just created by cloning the repository by typing:
  

  cd jamsession

• Inside you will find three main folders:

  • backend
  • frontend
  • jamsession_core

• Enter frontend/app folder by typing:
  

  cd frontend/app

• Update the config.js file in the src folder with your database information. We used Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cognito, AppSync, and DynamoDB.

• You need to install the node modules before running the app, enter the following command to install the modules:

  npm install

• In this folder type the following command to start the local development:
  

  npm start
  

  Runs the app in the development mode.
  Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.The page will reload if you make edits.You will also see any lint errors in the console.

• Type the following command to run the all tests:
  

  npm test

  Launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode. See the section about running tests for more information. All the tests are located in src/tests

• Jamsession core is setup in a remote server, if you wan to run it locally follow this README

Jam Session Core:

High Level Description

This is a Docker container that hosts a basic Flask script that pipes the code of whatever the user has drafted on the frontend and send it to sclang/Supercollider to be interpreted and generate the sound. The sound generated in the container is being streamed to a socket. The socket can be played with an HTML5 media player.

More details about the implementation:

After weeks of tweaking and messing around with running Supercollider and Foxdot headless, we have abandoned Foxdot integration even though it is the most popular live coding platform.