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The HTMLMediaElement is awesome!
I always listen to Spotify and I'm curious about how the video controller works under the hood (e.g, when I press the play button then what happens? when I drag the thumb thingy and drag it across the progress bar It feels awesome but I'm not so sure how it works though) until I stumbled upon this awesome API which gives me the gist of how Spotify and other music platforms controls their music.
Roadblocks
My main roadblock is the deployment part of the project because of my abysmal knowledge in Heroku I made my back-end save the uploaded .png and .mp4 assets using a file system and save it on the server then I figured that Heroku save those uploaded assets temporarily (thanks to my Nerd Friends) so I need to find a way to somehow persist those assets because they are the bread and butter of the site.
After searching "free storage server for web developers" in duckduckgo I saw Cloudinary in the list (I've used S3 before but aws locked my account for not paying my bills I'm a broke developer I need clients lol) which does not charge me (yet) it's cool! I found their API easy to use and after a few minutes of rewiring my Back-End I finally did it! Heroku and Cloudinary work great in tandem! I'm so happy it works even though I'm not so sure how it works (just kidding lol)
Takeaways
Find your blindspots and you will never be bored, one of my blindspots before is I'm not sure how the music player works in Spotify but now I kinda see it a bit differently thanks to boredom and this awesome api.