Songs I Know Svelte App
Ever pick up a guitar and can’t remember a song to play?
Songs I Know is an app for getting inspiration when holding a guitar and nothing comes to mind. Visit the app and add the songs you know.
App features
- Easily store the songs you know
- Add album artwork, lyrics and chords sections
- Chord search API
- Chord fretboard visualisation
- Hear how the chords sound
- Create custom chords
- Capo support
- Set custom song tunings
- Song artwork search
- Google Firebase real-time database
- Offline support
- Easily import/export songs
- Manage and erase account data
Technology
This is the 5th iteration of the app and this time it’s back with a fresh look and built as a PWA using Svelte and Firebase. The goal of the previous version was to build an app using web technologies that felt as native as possible. Although this goal was mostly achieved the app store publishing process was a little daunting for such personal app and more than I wanted to take on. The final app was never made available for public use and remained running locally on my phone.
Since 2015 PWAs have come a long way and so seemed like a great opportunity to revisit and explore the new features. I was also looking for an excuse to test out Svelte and its built in animations support. The result may not feel 100% native, but can be installed as a full-screen home screen app to get that little bit closer.
Contribution
The project itself is open-source and available on Github. Issues and pull requests welcome if you find the app useful and want to contribute to taking it further.
