rdren0 / movie-tracker-1

Movie Tracker

This project is working off the The Movie DB API (https://www.themoviedb.org/documentation/api - note you'll need to go create an account to get an API key). The idea of the project is to be able to sign in as a user and save favorite movies.

This repository will serve as your "backend", allowing you to connect to Postgres. You'll need to set up a separate client-side application (use create-react-app), to sit alongside this one. Do not put that project in the same repository as this one, save yourself a headache.

Project Setup

• Clone down this repo and run npm install
• If you don't have postgresSQl, scroll down to Setup Postgresql and follow those steps.
• Run npm start - visit localhost:3000/api/users - you should see a json response with a single user.

Setup Postgresql

IMPORTANT: If you already have Postgresql on your computer for some reason, you will need to uninstall it

For information on how to do this read this

What is Postgresql?

• PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system

Installation:

• Head over to Postgres.app to download and install PostgreSQL
• When you click initialize, you should now be able to see that postgreSQL is running
• To be able to use the command line tools, you will need to run the following commannd in your terminal to configure your $PATH sudo mkdir -p /etc/paths.d && echo /Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/latest/bin | sudo tee /etc/paths.d/postgresapp
• You will need to close your terminal window and re-open it for the changes to take effect

Creating our database

• Make sure you are in you movie-tracker project folder
• From the command line, run the following command to create a users database psql -f ./database/users.sql
• When you start up the server (npm install and npm start), you should now be able to visit localhost:3000/api/users and see the database with a single user (Taylor)

Press CMD-T to create a new tab in your terminal

• Type psql. This will get you into the interactive postgres terminal. From here you can run postgres and sql commands. You might get an error psql: FATAL: database "username" does not exist To resolve this error type createdb 'somthing does not exist'

PSQL Commands

API - Endpoints

You will be using the fetch API to make all your api calls. If you are making a post request, note that you will need to pass in an options object with a method and headers - with a 'Content-Type': 'application/json'. Additionally you will need to pass any any required fields into the body. Check out the docs for additional info.

Users

• Sign In /api/users

To sign in you will need to pass in email and password to the body. Emails should be sent in all lowercase. - ex: {..., body: {email: '[e-mail]', password: 'password'} } The database starts off with a single user inside. -> { email: [e-mail] password: password }. Keep in mind the response will send the entire user back.

• Create Account - /api/users/new

  Creating an account must have all input fields filled in (name, email, password) You must send all three into the body. Passwords are case sensitive. Keep in mind the response only gives the new user ID.

• Add Favorite - /api/users/favorites/new

  To save a favorite you must send into the body: movie_id, user_id and title, poster_path, release_date, vote_average, overview. Keep in mind the response only gives the new favorite id

• Receive All Favorites - /api/users/:user_id/favorites

  To get a users favorite movies you need to send in the user ID through the params. This will return an array favorite objects.

• Delete a Favorite - /api/users/:user_id/favorites/:movie_id

  To delete a users favorite you must send in the users id and id of the movie.

Iterations

Iteration 0: Pull in movie API

• Pull most recent movies from MovieDB API.
• Display each movie on root index /

Iteration 1: Sign In / Sign Out Functionality

• Be able to sign in on page /login and redirect user to /
  • Flash "Email and Password do not match" - if password is incorrect
• Ability to create a user.
  • Flash "Email has already been used" - if email has been taken
• The user has the ability to sign out.

Iteration 2: Favorites and Showing Details

• Each movie should be displayed with a favorite button.
• If the user is not signed in and clicks on a favorite button the user will be prompted with the request to create an account.
• Validate favorites before adding to db. Aka does that user already have the movie stored as favorites. There should be no duplicates.
• If the user visits /favorites they should see a list of all their favorite movies.
• The user should be able to delete favorites from /favorites or /.
• Favorite movies should have a visual indication on /.
• A user can click and view any individual movie. The url for each individual movie page should be "/movies/:id"

Extensions:

• A user stays signed in after refreshing the page. Hint: You will probably use localStorage.
• Should only take real email addresses Hint: Look into regular expressions
• Convert your project to use typescript