Movie Recommendations API

This project allows the user to enter in a movie to recommend and its genre. Users can vote on movies that were recommended by clicking the like button and movie recommendations can be deleted.

Link to project: https://movie-recommendations-api.onrender.com/

movie-recommendations-api.mp4

How It's Made

Tech used: Embedded JavaScript (EJS), CSS, Bootstrap, Node, Express, MongoDB, and deployed with Render.

Required Dependencies

• npm install
• Create a .env file in config folder and add the following as key = value
• PORT = 2121 (can be any port example: 3000)
• DB_STRING = your database URI
• Add a .gitignore file with .env and node_modules

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Run

npm start

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Movie Recommendations API was a project I made to practice CRUD functions, such as creating a new movie entry, reading or refreshing the currently stored data whenever a change is made, updating the number of likes, and deleting a movie recommendation from the database.

I utilized server-side JavaScript to connect the MongoDB database with the different CRUD functions and Embedded JavaScript Templating (EJS) on the client-side to render the HTML and CSS framework that the user sees.

Optimizations

I would add user accounts and additional features to develop the project into a comprehensive movie database where the user could look up more information about a specific movie and where they could watch it.

Lessons Learned

I learned how to utilize CRUD functions to interact with a database based on the user's request. I also implemented an auto refresh with a get request that redirects back the homepage or root route after a post request has been made. The put and delete requests update the database and return updates to the terminal in a console log to demonstrate that the request was successful.

Credits

Photo of Movie Projector by Alex Litvin on Unsplash.com

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