Trailer Viewer

Application written in Node.JS for showing trailers from the Viaplay Content API. After reading "Please write your application in Node.JS" I decided to render the markup on the server using React. Maybe a bit too litteraly.

Happyflow only. No error handling.

• Example of movie: http://localhost:8080/web-se/film/the-wedding-ringer-2015
• Another example: http://localhost:8080/web-se/film/dude-wheres-my-car-2000

Install and run

# Clone repo
git clone https://github.com/abbashassanali/trailer-viewer.git

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run server
npm start

Some of the frameworks used in this project

Babel

• Mainly for being able to import JSX into Node. Did not used the latest version since i have played around a bit with version 4 and version 6 is quite different. Ex. Babel is replaced with babel-cli.

React

• Fits really good with Node.JS for server rendering of markup (and because I wanted to play around with it).

Fetch

• Get content from other endpoints. Used this instead of "http" which I normally use in projects. Really liked fetch. Simple and promise based.

ServeStatic

• Basic node plugins used for serving static content such as images and stylesheets.

Some enhancements and left outs

Intentionally left out some of the graphic elements such as the IMDB logo, tags, favourites icon and footer and header links.

• Render on client as well. Currently there is only server side rendering.
• Add css processor and split css into modules as the application grows.
• Implement error handling such as catch on promises etc.