Week 1 Assignment: Flixster

Submitted by: Pierre Johnson

Estimated time spent: 5 hours spent in total

Deployed Application (optional): Flixster Deployed Site

Application Features

Core Features

• User can view a list of current movies from The Movie Database API as a grid view
  • The grid element should have an id of movies-grid
  • Each movie wrapper element should have a class of movie-card
• For each movie displayed, user can see the following details:
  • Title - the element should have a class of movie-title
  • Image - the img element should have a class of movie-poster
  • Votes - the element should have a class of movie-votes
• User can load more current movies by clicking a button at the bottom of the list
  • The button should have an id of load-more-movies-btn.
  • When clicked, the page should not refresh.
  • New movies should simply be added to the bottom
• Allow users to search for movies and display them in a grid view
  • There should be a search input element with an id of search-input
  • Users should be able to type into the input
  • When a user hits 'Enter', it should send a search request to the movies API
  • The results from the search should be displayed on the page
  • There should be a close icon with an id of close-search-btn that exits the search, clears results, and shows the current movies displayed previously
• Website accounts for basic HTML/CSS accessibility features
• Website should be responsive

Stretch Features

• Deploy website using GitHub Pages.
• Allow user to view more details about a movie within a popup.
• Improve the user experience through CSS & animation.
• Allow movie video trailers to be played using embedded YouTube
• Implement anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality!

Walkthrough Video

https://www.loom.com/share/d0f76ebad8ad4b47b10f47ef087e5237

Reflection

• Did the topics discussed in your labs prepare you to complete the assignment? Be specific, which features in your weekly assignment did you feel unprepared to complete?

My main difficulty here was a lack of comfort with JavaScript so the labs did not hlp with that much. Independent work blocks were most beneficial for this

• If you had more time, what would you have done differently? Would you have added additional features? Changed the way your project responded to a particular event, etc.

I might style it more and try to improve the user experience.

• Reflect on your project demo, what went well? Were there things that maybe didn't go as planned? Did you notice something that your peer did that you would like to try next time?

I did not demo this week.

Open-source libraries used

• none

Shout out

Give a shout out to somebody from your cohort that especially helped you during your project. This can be a fellow peer, instructor, TA, mentor, etc.