Spotify seems to be the coolest thing since sliced bread nowadays, and the defacto way to listen to music anytime, anywhere.

While using the Spotify desktop player the other day, I thought that it might be neat to see how difficult it would be to implement some of its user interface in React. Several hours later, and with way less stress than I had imagined, I was able to come up with something pretty nice.

Therefore, this article (and the ones that will follow it) will be geared towards those that want to improve their React skills, and use its newer features to come up with what I think is an elegant implementation of a basic music player.

Our audio player will be built to utilize the Web Audio API out of the box, and will include the following functionality:

• Creating & removing playlists
• Viewing & updating playlists
• Play, pause, fast-forward, rewind etc.
• Adjusting volume
• Favoriting songs

I highly recommend reading through the tutorial first, and then checking out the accompanying video I’ve uploaded for this article on YouTube (which you can find at the end of the article).

#web-development #javascript #spotify #react