--- title: Building a Music Player in React | daily.dev description: The missing projects are the music player and video player. Both of the projects will give you the opportunity to handle audio and video. You will learn many... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-music-player-in-react-cj9vvnkvu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Building a Music Player in React | daily.dev og:description: The missing projects are the music player and video player. Both of the projects will give you the opportunity to handle audio and video. You will learn many... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-music-player-in-react-cj9vvnkvu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/cj9VVnKVu.png og:image:alt: Building a Music Player in React og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Building a Music Player in React **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · [@surajondev](https://daily.dev/surajondev) · 6 min read · 130 upvotes · 12 comments ## Summary The missing projects are the music player and video player. Both of the projects will give you the opportunity to handle audio and video. You will learn many things such as handling audio for playing and pausing audio. Today, we are going to build a music player in React. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@mike44nyc** · 1 upvotes > thank you for this share **@baranerdogan** · 1 upvotes > Thank you **@ilijaloncarevic** · 1 upvotes > Nice, I had a similar project few months ago and will try to OS it. One improvement to this is to wrap it in context so you can have easier access in nested components, and also have a variable isDragging, and while doing so, pause the audio so it doesn't sound scrambled :) **@ashm10471** · 1 upvotes > Thanks for making this easier! Love it! **@ghost** · 1 upvotes > Please use vite instead of CRA ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#react](https://daily.dev/tags/react) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-music-player-in-react-cj9vvnkvu) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Building a Music Player in React","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-music-player-in-react-cj9vvnkvu","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-music-player-in-react-cj9vvnkvu"},"datePublished":"2022-12-17T14:48:48.736Z","dateModified":"2023-12-07T12:02:45.284Z","description":"The missing projects are the music player and video player. 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