babel-handbook VS spotify-web-api-node

For more information about building Babel plugins, check the Kent's Babel Handbook or this awesome Babel handbook by Jamie.

Babel does this by compiling down JavaScript code written with the latest standards into a version that will work everywhere today. This process is known as source-to-source compiling, also known as transpiring. Source: Jamie Kyle

I'll be honest, my approach to getting used to working with ASTs is a bit weird, but it worked for me. For some reason the thought of working with the TypeScript AST sounds really attractive to me. I'm sure most people recommend to start deep diving into babel first before getting used to working with an AST with the TypeScript compiler, but I started it the other way around. There is a great library called ts-morph that focuses on making it easier for developers to work with the TypeScript compiler. Learning hands on with ts-morph while getting used to their compiler api made babel much easier to understand without ever touching babel.

Those videos gave me a base for the task but I needed more sources to achieve it, so I read a lot of source code for other libraries built with babel-plugin-macros, read the plugin's authoring documentation and Jamie Kyle's Babel Handbook.

If you want to learn more about parsing, reading the code of an actual recursive parser might be a better idea. Esprima is a decent place to start if you're interested in JS grammar. Then you can look at the babel handbook to learn more about AST transformations. From there, the literature gets quite a bit more heavy. If you get this far and are willing to push further, you'll probably want to grab yourself a copy of the dragon book at a minimum.

Babel handbook

It looks like that SDK is specifically meant for browsers. In the Spotify Web API Libraries list, they list spotify-web-api-node as the only library under node.

One of my favorite libraries demonstrating the builder pattern in practice is spotify-web-api-node.

The answer is, yes, it's possible. Unfortunately the answer to where to begin is to learn to code. You would need to learn: - a programming language. Let's say you choose to learn javascript. - the general concepts of a REST API and packages/libraries in the language of your choice as you will need to use these - The Spotify REST API to control Spotify and enable syncing the lights. You could optionally use a Spotify API wrapper for your language of choice to simplify this. - A library to control your lights.

But yeah it's basically just Feed the artist name into Spotify search Make sure the artist is a good match Select their top two tracks Add the tracks to the playlist I’m using this https://github.com/thelinmichael/spotify-web-api-node - you just have to be careful with being rate limited by Spotify which is based on the number of requests you make over a 90 second period, and the total number over a 24 hour period.