Hey all! Just wanted to give you guys an update on the status of Beatbump. I know there hasn't been much in the way of commits, so it doesn't feel like the project is actively maintained -- but trust me, it is!

What's been up

I've been really busy dealing with a few big challenges that life threw my way, and also did a lot of work for my job. Still working on the challenges, but my work schedule is lighter (if my boss is reading this, I appreciate it for many reasons! Thanks again!)

There has been a few pull requests over the past few months (thank you again!) and because of those I realized the codebase is still a mess. Although it is better than before, it's still very much a house of cards it feels.

What's happening

I am working on doing yet another refactor and cleanup, and tackling a few Issues that were made, and hopefully this will benefit everyone: users, contributors, and myself.

How things will change

A few months ago I took a step in the right direction with the API and made it more 'constrained'. What I mean by this is within app/src/routes/api/_lib/request.ts there's a function called buildAPIRequest that is fully typed and offers a 'standardized' way of making the HTTP requests to YTM.

But that was a few months ago, and a single step just isn't good enough. At the time of writing, theres a few API-related issues, the most obvious one being all of the "Genre" pages.

Here's the parsing code for that endpoint:

On the left is the current code, on the right are my un-published changes

The fix for this is simple - just parse all the data together and then transform the data based on what "kind" of object it is. This fix should (and will) be done project-wide. Especially considering how many pages would benefit from this change. Theres a few spots in the API that are pretty similar to the code above. Those spots are where things can, and usually do, break.

Along with this, the components are getting a total revamp (potentially the UI will be changed as well).

Hope y'all will be excited to see this! If anyone has any suggestions, ideas, or questions - open an issue or comment on this!

Thank you for your support in making Beatbump into what it has become!