README.md

This is an older app I was working on that calls an api to get a list of best rated movies. Movies can be clicked on to add them to one of two different lists: Love and Hate

The lists are stored in a mongoDB database.

I had a simpler version a really long time ago and nostalgia made me want to take it out of the dusty folder and finish whatever "upgrades" I planned on implementing.

It's fun to see what my code used to look like.

An api-key is required from www.themoviedb.org and should be exported in an apikey.js file in /server/helpers or simply pasted directly in server/helper/apiHelpers.js :

const axios = require("axios");
const apiKey = require("./apikey"); // or paste your key here instead

module.exports.getGenres = function () {
  return axios.get(
    `https://api.themoviedb.org/3/genre/movie/list?api_key=${apiKey}&language=en-US`
  );
};

module.exports.getMovies = function (id) {
  return axios.get(
    `https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?api_key=${apiKey}&language=en-US&sort_by=vote_average.desc&include_adult=false&include_video=false&page=1&vote_count.gte=100&with_genres=${id}`

To try out a development server:

• Clone the repository and run npm install
• In your terminal, naivgate to /good-movies and type npm start to start the development server
• In another terminal, navigate to the /server folder and run node index.js to start the node server. The react dev server is running on localhost:3000 with a proxy to the node server which runs on localhost:8080

Don't forget to have your api key and mongoDB on your machine!