Movie Finder is an app that pulls movie information from The MovieDB API. The app displays films that are currently in theaters or coming soon. Users can also search to get info on other films.
This was my first time using Typescript, so the time it took to create this app was a lot longer than I expected! I was, however, able to catch several errors before the app went into production (mostly having to do with data returned from the API).
I'd had lukewarm feelings about Tailwind before this, but now having used it in a React project I can see the value of not having to flip back and forth between stylesheets. I still think I prefer CSS given the choice, but I can definitely see why the framework is gaining in popularity. As for working with the API, I loved using SWR and now find it preferable to useEffect for RestAPI calls. No more debugging dependency arrays! And it makes pagination so easy.
If you're interested in how close the final product is to my original sketch, you can download the Figma PDF here.
React, Tailwind, Typescript, SWR, Framer Motion, Context API w/ Hooks, Netlify
- Typescript
- Tailwind (for a React project)
- Framer Motion
- SWR for data retrieval and pagination
- Styled components (to style the background on the item record page)
- The srcSet attribute for images, which makes responsive image resizing MUCH easier
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