CineQuest

Project Overview

This project is a combination of a React frontend and a Django backend. This is a movies website where a user or movie critic can create an account and can see or post his own reviews for a movie .

You can view the frontend over https://arshdeep54.github.io/cinequest/

Some Developer Side features to this project are :-

• User Authentication

  • Email and password athentication
  • Email verification with otp
  • Change password functionality to loggin users
  • Reset password with a link sent to email for those who forgot their passwords

• Home Page

  • Search Bar to Search with name and description set to movie CTRL+M shortcut to search
  • Filters based on language,Rating ,Release Year ,Platform
  • Latest and Popular movies horizontal list with pagination
  • All Movies grid with pagination
  • Movie card having click to view details functionality

• Profile Page

  • User Infomation(profile picture,first name,last name,gender,Dob,Mobile,About Movie life) which can be updated
  • All reviews made by the user
  • User's Favorite Movies
  • Account Settings: Log out, Change password

• Movie Page

  • All Movie details
  • Add to Favorite feature
  • Add review
  • Like or dislike a Review
  • Reply to a review
  • Delete Your reply
  • Reccomended movies based on users favorite movies

Table of Contents

• Getting Started
  • Prerequisites
  • Installation
• Usage
• Development

Getting Started

Follow these instructions to get the project up and running on your local machine.

Prerequisites

• React
• Python
• Django

Installation

1. Activate Virtual Environment:

   # On Windows
   python -m venv venv
   .\venv\Scripts\activate
   
   # On macOS/Linux
   python -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate

2. Install Backend Dependencies:

   pip install Django
   # Add other backend dependencies as needed, you can see pipfile to know more 

3. Install Frontend Dependencies:

   # Navigate to the frontend directory
   cd frontend
   
   # Install Node.js packages
   npm install

Usage

1. Run the project locally as mentioned in Development Part
2. But you wont see any movies there because you havent yet added any movie to your rest api / database
3. So first Scrape the movies webiste ,get data and post to your api , You may use my scraping file(bs4) for that if I dont delete it when you are reading this

Development

Running Locally

Make sure the virtual environment is activated, and then run the following commands:

# Run Django server
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver

# Navigate to the frontend directory and start React development server
cd frontend
npm start

Frontend is deployed on github pages on repo https://github.com/Arshdeep54/cinequest .

Backend is deployed on Python Anywhere and repo https://github.com/Arshdeep54/cinebackend