Mosaic Films - recommendationRaccoon Demo App

Mosaic Films is a demo of the recommendationRaccoon engine built on top of Node.js. It is a full installation of the module that takes advantage of lightning fast recommendations powered by Redis and a simple user interface. It comes complete with sample content and tests.

Get up and running in less than 5 minutes!

Video Demo of Mosaic:

Dependencies

• Async
• CSV
• Express
• Postgres
• Sequelize
• Node
• Raccoon
• Redis
• Underscore

recommendationRaccoon Engine Repo

• https://github.com/guymorita/recommendationRaccoon

How to install locally

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/guymorita/Mosaic-Films---Recommendation-Engine-Demo.git

2. Install dependencies

Navigate to folder

cd Mosaic-Films---Recommendation-Engine-Demo

npm install

2a. Install a Redis (configure if necessary in lib/config.js)

brew install redis

2b. Install Postgres (configure if necessary in lib/config.js)

brew install postgres

Start up postgres server

postgres -D /usr/local/var/postgres

Create a database

createdb mosaic

4. Import Sample Data

node lib/importMovies.js

3. Boot up servers in separate terminal windows

redis-server

postgres -D /usr/local/var/postgres

node node-server.js

5. It's ready! Try the home page

• http://localhost:3000/