Epiphany is a personalized Twitch resources recommendation engine

Epiphany

Overview

Epiphany is a personalized Twitch resources recommendation engine. Users can search and retrieve real-time Twitch resources using Twitch API and make their favorite collection. They can then get recommended based on trending games or their like history.

Tools and Technologies

• Front-end: React.js, Ant Design
• Back-end: JavaEE, Apache Tomcat, MySQL (AWS RDS)
• Retrieving Games: Twitch APIs
• Recommendation: A content-based algorithm implemented in Java
• Authentication: Cookie-based auth
• Deployment: AWS EC2

Main Features

• Supports basic login/logout function
• Users can search any game they like and get some top results grouped by streams/videos/clips, and view them on Twitch.tv
• Users can like/unlike a game resource and check it later on their favorite collection page
• Users will get recommended either by most popular games or by their own like history

References

• Create-react-app docs
• Twitch API docs

Eric

December 27, 2021