Personal blog of Stein Magnus Jodal Zola 2017-08-26T00:00:00+00:00 https://jodal.dev/tags/api/atom.xml 2017-08-26T00:00:00+00:00 2017-08-26T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://jodal.dev/2017/08/26/mopidy-in-the-browser/

<p>Note: This is a blog post draft that was originally written in January 2013, left unattended for 1689 days, and rediscovered and published unedited in August 2017.</p> <p>During the five years since Mopidy entered the browser with its HTTP JSON-RPC API and the Mopidy.js JavaScript library, many successful Mopidy web clients have been built on top of this foundation. The APIs themselves have survived the test of time and have required minimal maintenance, just as I hoped when implementing the APIs back in November 2012.</p> <hr /> <p><a rel="external" href="https://mopidy.com/">Mopidy</a> is a music server written in Python. It plays music from various sources, including local disk and Spotify. Mopidy can be remote-controlled by, among others, <abbr title="Music Player Daemon">MPD</abbr> clients.</p> <p>In Mopidy 0.10, released in the middle of December, we added an HTTP frontend. The HTTP frontend takes Mopidy’s full core API and makes it available from JavaScript in the browser. This means that you now can make your own web clients for Mopidy in JavaScript, and Wouter van Wijk has already started on <a rel="external" href="https://github.com/pimusicbox/mopidy-musicbox-webclient">his client</a> (<em>updated link</em>).</p> <p>I’d like to write a bit about how we made the HTTP client.</p>