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Copilot AI commented Aug 19, 2025

This PR completely converts the Rails-based "Get Down" application to a modern JavaScript application using Vite as the build tool. The core functionality of displaying songs with colorized chord progressions is preserved while eliminating Rails dependencies.

Key Changes

🔄 Architecture Migration

  • Replaced Rails with Vite-based JavaScript application
  • Converted server-side rendering to client-side application
  • Implemented hash-based routing to replace Rails routes
  • Migrated from Ruby/Rails to pure JavaScript/HTML/CSS

📁 Project Structure

  • Created modern src/ directory structure with organized JS, CSS, and data files
  • Added package.json with Vite dependencies and build scripts
  • Set up vite.config.js for development and production builds
  • Added comprehensive .gitignore for Node.js projects

🎵 Data Migration

  • Converted database seeds (db/seeds.rb) to JSON format (src/data/songs.json)
  • Preserved original song data including "You Are My Sunshine" and "La Mer"
  • Maintained chord progression information and artist metadata

🎨 Style Conversion

  • Converted SCSS files to modern CSS with custom properties
  • Preserved original visual design and chord colorization
  • Replaced Rails asset pipeline with Vite's native CSS processing
  • Maintained Blueprint CSS grid functionality with simplified equivalent

⚡ Functionality Preservation

  • Song listing with artist and title display
  • Individual song views with chord/lyric parsing
  • Colorized chord progressions using the same color scheme
  • Navigation between list and detail views
  • Responsive layout matching original design

🧹 Cleanup

  • Removed all Rails-specific files and directories (app/, config/, db/, etc.)
  • Deleted Ruby dependencies (Gemfile, Gemfile.lock)
  • Eliminated Rails configuration files and scripts

Usage

The application now uses standard Node.js/npm commands:

npm install        # Install dependencies
npm run dev        # Start development server
npm run build      # Build for production
npm run preview    # Preview production build

The development server runs on http://localhost:3000 and provides the same functionality as the original Rails application, but with faster development iteration and modern JavaScript tooling.

Fixes #9.


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Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Initialize JS/Vite project structure Initialize JS/Vite project structure - Convert Rails app to modern JavaScript Aug 19, 2025
Copilot AI requested a review from nickh August 19, 2025 18:32
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Initialize JS/Vite project structure

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