AbhijitSarode / DrumKit

Drum Kit is a Vanilla JS app created to explore web responsiveness, SEO optimisation & Audio webAPI

DrumKit

Drum kit allows you to play basic drums and cymbals sounds either by clicking on virtual keys or pressing the keys on the keyboard

The goal of this project is to explore more about responsiveness, event listeners (adding & handling multiple event listeners on single element), audio integration, animations, color gradients & SEO meta tags

In this project following things are used

• getElementById and querySelector to select and manipulate DOM elements
• background-image & linear-gradient to create gradient background
• Audio webAPI for playing audio
• Custom font Arvo
• Primary meta tags such as author, title & description
• Facebook's meta tags such asog:type, og:url, og:title, og:description & og:image
• Twitter's meta tags such as twitter:url, twitter:title, twitter:description & twitter:image

Challenges Faced

Unable to play audio despite using correct API from documentation

Solutions To Challenges

Understanding browswer security and modifying code accordingly to fulfill browser's requirements

Key Takeaway

• To target alphabet keys use keypress rather than keydown
• Browser security & updates play a crucial role in the development, when things just don't work and error messages don't make any sense, read broswer update logs