Movie Web App

A web app that lists and searches movies.

Development Environment

Setup

Ensure you have the following softwares installed:

• Node
• Docker (if you need to run as container)
• Git

Clone the repository and proceed with the instructions below.

Running App locally

This app is written with Vuejs so Nodejs powers it; Enter the folloeing commands to start app locally

Project setup

yarn install

Compiles and hot-reloads for development

yarn serve

Open browser and visit

http://localhost:8080

Running as Docker Container

From within the project directory run the following:

yarn docker:bash

to build image and container for app

when this is done, app will basically start on port 8080.

Viewing the running ports

Open a new terminal window and run the following command:

docker ps

You will be given a printout showing your running containers. Part of the printout should contain something like this:

.....   0.0.0.0:8080->8080/tcp,     movie_web_app

This tells you that the various machines exist "locally" at 0.0.0.0 and that the exposed web port have been mapped to port 8080.

Stopping Container

To stop the docker development environment, issue the following command from the project root:

yarn docker:down

This will stop all the container and related to this project.

Starting Container

To start the docker development environment another time run:

yarn docker:up

This will start the container again.

View the Home Page

To load the homepage of the app, visit the url below in a browser:

http://0.0.0.0:8080

Thus your adventure begins... The project is up and running.