In the wide world of online streaming services, it can become a daunting task to figure out which site to choose in order to browse and find new movies to watch. As you go from service to service, your favorite movies are also only stored on those individual websites. With the Couch Potato app, we seek to bridge that gap by allowing you to browse an extensive movie catalog and save a collection of your favorite movies all on one site.
We wanted to make sure that our movie catalog is always available for users, so we created our own movie database to populate the app by importing a dataset instead of relying on a third-party API data stream. You can browse movies by genre, movie title, or by looking through our randomized slideshow to help expand your horizons. When you click on a movie you are shown a variety of information that will help you decide what to watch during your next couch potato session.
Now if you want to find a new movie or revisit a classic, you only need to start in one place, and that is the Couch Potato app!
In this project we learned the importance of dividing team focus between the front-end and back-end and collaborating between those areas to deliver functionality quickly and reliably. We utilzed MySQL Workbench in order to import our dataset to create a seamless integration with our JS models. With the help of many Node packages such as express, sequelize, and handlebars, we were able to serve up customized HTML templates based on search criteria.
In order to use our app, simply go to the following link: https://infinite-river-93616.herokuapp.com/
If by any chance you wish to deploy this app on your local machine, use the following steps (you must have MySQL, Node.js, and MySQL workbench installed on your machine):
- Clone this repo to your machine
- Install all dependencies
- In MySQL source the db schema file
- Use MySQL workbench to import csv to movies table
- Start the app using
npm run startor a similar command
When the app is deployed you will begin on the home page. Here you can see the navigation bar, a brief overview of our app, and a Browse Movie Collection button. Click the Browse button to see the catalog.
If you are not logged in, your functionality is limited to perusing the browse page slideshow and viewing a variety of movie details when you click a movie image.
If you wish to get full access to the site, click the Login link in the navigation bar. You will also be redirected to the Login page if you try to perform an action limited to registered users such as viewing the My Collection page, attempting to save a movie to your collection, or performing a customized genre or movie title search.
You can use the following test user to log in:
- email: test5@test.com
- password: 12345678
When you are logged in you can perform a custom search on the Browse page by using the search forms on the left side of the page. You can use one criteria in a search. Your search results are populated in the space to the right.
When the search results appear, clicking on a result will launch the movie details modal. A variety of details are present to help inform you about the movie. Click the Save to My Collection button at the bottom of the modal to save the movie to your collection.
To view your collection, head over to the My Collection page via the navigation bar. Here we diplay your saved movie collection. You can click on each item and view the movie modal details modal. On this modal, you have the ability to remove the movie from your collection by clicking the Remove from My Collection button. Changes are displayed immediately.
When you are all done with your session, logout by clicking the Logout button in the navigation bar. Your collection will remain intact on your next visit. Enjoy!
Brought to you by the following certified couch potatoes:
- Matthew Bronstein: mbronstein1
- David Byrd: methyl8
- Brendon Jiang: JBrendon15
- Jared Johnson: nolacoder
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