The Time-Traveling Music Store immerses users in a unique, nostalgic experience of different decades by showcasing music from different times alongside era-specific site designs.
Leveraging dynamic DevCycle feature flags, users are able choose a year and travel back to enjoy the tunes and feel of that time period. For example, choose 1999 and get nostalgic with a retro-designed website and iconic hits from that year.
The application also offers modern-day enthusiasts and music fans sleek, cutting-edge designs featuring the latest tracks.
Users can refresh the page or use the dedicated button to fetch new music from the selected year, ensuring a dynamic and up-to-date experience.
The application was built using the MusicBrainz API for fetching music from different years, Redux for state management of music and time year, and archive.io for fetching thumbnail images of the music displayed.
The YouTube Search API was used to search, fetch and play the video music of the selected track, creating a seamless and engaging user experience.
By changing the feature flag variable, which is the year (as time), the web application can travel through time, providing a unique and immersive experience for users.
Developer's experience with DevCycle was good due to easy documentation and support for multiple client and server side SDKs.
The application also qualifies for the OpenFeature Aficionado award category for using Dev Cycle's OpenFeature of React client SDK.