Nickzad Bayati - Cal Poly Senior Project (from 1/9/23 to 6/16/23)

Live Streaming platform for music artists and bands

Thoughts on my progress as of 6/9/23:

• there were some weeks with a lack of good progress, mainly due to not spending enough time working on the project

  • that being said I think I have made decent progress overall

• are there things that I would do differently, definitely:

  • during the first few months I incorrectly assumed that my stream implementation worked fine
    • in reality when I wrote the API to serve chunks of the stream the process wasn't working
    • as a result I had to rewrite most of the code that dealt with recording chunks of the audio and encoding it for the database
  • in a similar vein my code was initially pretty messy, which also probably forced me to rewrite it down the road

• but there were also some good parts:

  • initially I was relying a bit too much on StackOverflow and ChatGPT
    • and I wasn't really understanding the process or how the code works
    • then I started reading over MDN documentation on the JS built-in libraries for recording audio
    • and getting a much better understanding of the overall process and the code I was writing
  • By taking on the project by myself, I got to experience multiple areas of web stack development

Edit:
The MongoDB database I used has been disabled for now, this is intentional, although it means the deployed web app won't work anymore.
When I resume working on this project the database will be restarted.