“Trend Watch” is a PWA-enabled website for trending movies information and search movies in the movie database (TMDB) who owns the REST API used in this Front-end React PWA project. It can also be installed (add to home screen) as a standalone application on both desktop and mobile. Ant Design is used as UI library.
This is a React frontend web project and backend REST API is provided by The Movie Database.
workbox-cli is required to inject lists of static resources to be precached by tweaking the webpack config of React's CRA. workbox-cli comes into play in building process to inject our customized service worker file sw.js. If you just want to run the app as a non-PWA site, you don't need workbox. Install this globally via
yarn global add workbox-cli
or
npm install -g workbox-cli
Before you run this project, sign up and get your own Access Token (v4 auth) from TMDB to call their API. For convenience, create environment variable file named .env and paste the following like so:
REACT_APP_API_END_POINT=https://api.themoviedb.org/3
REACT_APP_ACCESS_TOKEN=<YOUR_TMDB_ACESS_TOKEN>
REACT_APP_POSTER_PATH=https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500
In the project directory, you can run:
Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.
The page will reload if you make edits.
You will also see any lint errors in the console.
Launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode.
See the section about running tests for more information.
Builds the app for production to the build folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.
The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
Your app is ready to be deployed!
See the section about deployment for more information.
Note: this is a one-way operation. Once you eject, you can’t go back!
If you aren’t satisfied with the build tool and configuration choices, you can eject at any time. This command will remove the single build dependency from your project.
Instead, it will copy all the configuration files and the transitive dependencies (webpack, Babel, ESLint, etc) right into your project so you have full control over them. All of the commands except eject will still work, but they will point to the copied scripts so you can tweak them. At this point you’re on your own.
You don’t have to ever use eject. The curated feature set is suitable for small and middle deployments, and you shouldn’t feel obligated to use this feature. However we understand that this tool wouldn’t be useful if you couldn’t customize it when you are ready for it.
You can learn more in the Create React App documentation.
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Live Demo: https://trendwatchpwa.netlify.app
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/tylersai/trendwatch
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