Spotify Album Search

Using Node.js, Express and the Spotify Web API

I recently completed the excellent Treehouse course on Node.js Basics presented by my fellow Englishman in PDX Andrew ‘Chalkers’ Chalkley.

The course runs through building a simple Node.js app that retrieves and displays user profile information from the Treehouse API.

That’s fine for a start but I wanted to do something a little more challenging with the Spotify API. It’s based on Rest and returns JSON format objects about artists, albums and songs. I thought a nice starting point would be to implement a simple search. That would allow me to do a bit of routing, some data posting and handling of responses all with Node.

Here’s what I threw together http://node-spotify-search.herokuapp.com/