So now I have set a new record of missing 4 days without creating a post (or doing work in general). However, today was one of my most productive days so far. You win some you lose some. Before doing any coding, I first did some outlining of the API functionality that the app is going to need by splitting the calls into three groups . The first being one where calls will be made directly to Spotify, the second to a DynamoDB instance only, and the third to Spotify but only after receiving a response from a DynamoDB query (in almost all cases to get an album ID).

With this outlining done I started working on two of the endpoints involving Spotify. One for getting the user’s currently playing track and one for getting album details given an album ID. Sadly, while setting up the second endpoint, I realized song-writer and producer credits are not made available via API 😔. If I’m committed I might be able to get these things through another API but I’ve just shelved features involving these credits for now. Looking forwards, tomorrow might be the day where I’m forced to set up a DynamoDB instance if I want to keep working on the backend.