Sonificafy Backend

This is the backend server for the Sonificafy project, which processes frontend requests and handles data sonification.

🚀 Technologies

The project uses a hybrid architecture with:

• Node.js: For the REST API server
• Python: For data processing and sonification

📋 Prerequisites

• Node.js (v18 or higher)
• Python (v3.8 or higher)
• npm or yarn
• pip (Python package manager)

🔧 Installation

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/alejandromur/sonificafy-backend.git
cd sonificafy-backend

2. Install Node.js dependencies:

npm install

3. Install Python dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Set up environment variables:

• Copy .env.example to .env
• Adjust the variables according to your environment

🚀 Development

To start the server in development mode:

npm run dev

The server will start at http://localhost:3000 (or the port specified in the environment variables).

📦 Project Structure

sonificafy-backend/
├── src/           # Node.js source code
├── scripts/       # Python sonification scripts
├── audios/        # Generated audio files directory
├── .env           # Environment variables
└── requirements.txt # Python dependencies

📚 Main Dependencies

Node.js

• express: Web framework
• cors: CORS middleware
• dotenv: Environment variables management
• axios: HTTP client

Python

• numpy: Numerical processing
• scipy: Signal processing

📄 License

This project is under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

✍️ Author

Alejandro - alejandro@mamutlove.com

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Here's how you can help:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a new branch (git switch -c feature/amazing-feature)
3. Make your changes
4. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some amazing feature')
5. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
6. Open a Pull Request

Please make sure to:

• Follow the existing code style
• Add comments to your code where necessary
• Update the documentation if needed
• Test your changes before submitting