Webamp NPM Module

Development

I do most development by starting the demo site in dev mode and iterating that way. The following commands will install all dependencies, run an initial development build and then start a local server. Every time you save a file, it will rebuild the bundle and automatically refresh the page.

# First clone the repo, then...
cd webamp
# Change into the NPM module's sub directory
cd packages/webamp
# __Note:__ Please use yarn over npm, since yarn will respect our `yarn.lock` file
yarn install
yarn start

http://localhost:8080/ should automatically open in your browser.

# Run tests and lint checks
yarn test

Building

The NPM module is built separately from the demo site. To build it run:

yarn run build-library

This will write files to ./built.

Testing

yarn test

This will run the tests the linter and the type checker.

To update snapshots run

yarn test -u

Cutting a Release

1. Update the version number in package.json
2. Rename the "Next" title at the top of CHANGELOG.md to the new version number and ensure it is up to date
3. Update the static VERSION property of the Webamp class in webampLazy.tsx
4. Git commit
5. cd packages/webamp
6. npm publish
7. Git tag the commit (e.g. 1.4.2 or 1.4.3-beta.3)
8. Push tag to GitHub git push origin <TAG_NAME>
9. Update all the examples to use the new version:

• minimal/index.html
• minimalMilkdrop/index.html
• webpack/package.json
• webpackLazyLoad/package.json
• https://codesandbox.io/s/y0xypox60z

8. Commit and push

Reference

• skinspecs.pdf
• Skinner's Atlas 1.5 by Jellby
• Winamp Skinning Tutorial
• Sacrat Skinning tutorial parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5,
• Winamp Wiki

Predecessors

• Webamp2x An impressive implementation from 2002(!).
• JsAmp An implementation from 2005 by @twm (via Hacker News).
• LlamaCloud Comp From 2011 by Lee Martin (via Twitter)
• Winamp em HTML5 e Javascript In 2010 a developer named Danilo posted one of his HTML5 experiments: "an audio player simulating good old Winamp". You will have to download the zip file.
• JuicyDrop An HTML5 implementation with less emphasis on being true to the skin, but fully featured visualizations. @cggaurav is keeping it alive on GitHub
• Spotiamp The folks at Spotify reimplemented Winamp as a frontend for Spotify. Not in a browser, and only runs on Windows. It has since been discontinued.