Assignment 2 - Web API.

Features.

• Authentication (login, register, logout)
• Upcoming, top rated movies with their detailed information
• Popular actors with their detailed information
• Add, delete, view users favourite movies
• Post and update reviews

Setup requirements.

• cd movies-api
• npm start
• open another terminal
• cd react-assignment
• npm start

API Configuration

1. Create an .env file in react-assignment folder with following variables

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• REACT_APP_TMDB_KEY=YourTMDBApiKey
• FAST_REFRESH=false

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2. Create an .env file in movies-appi folder with following variables

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• NODE_ENV=development
• PORT=8080
• HOST=localhost
• MONGO_DB=YourMongoURL
• SEED_DB=True
• SECRET=YourJWTSecret
• REACT_APP_TMDB_KEY=YourTMDBApiKey

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API Design

Give an overview of your web API design, perhaps similar to the following:

Actors

• /api/actors/tmdb/popular | GET | Gets popular actors from tmdb
• /api/actors/tmdb/actor/:id | GET | Gets detailed information of an actor from tmdb
• /api/actors/tmdb/actor/:id/movies | GET | Gets movies in which an actor has acted from tmdb
• /api/actors/tmdb/actor/:id/images | GET | Gets actor images from tmdb

Genres

• /api/genres/ | GET | Gets all genres from tmdb

Movies

• /api/movies/:id | GET | Gets a single movie from tmdb
• /api/movies/tmdb/upcoming/:page | GET | Get upcoming movies from tmdb based on page number
• /api/movies/tmdb/topRated/:page | GET | Get top rated movies from tmdb based on page number
• /api/movies/tmdb/movie/:id/images | GET | Get movie images from tmdb

Reviews

• /api/reviews/movie/:id/reviews | GET | Gets a movie reviews
• /api/reviews/movie/:id/reviews/:username | POST | posts or updates a review

Users

• /api/users/ | GET | Gets all users information from MongoDB
• /api/users/ | POST | Registers/authenticates a user
• /api/users/:id | Put | Updates information about a user
• /api/users/:userName/favourites | GET | Gets users favourites
• /api/users/:userName/favourites | POST | Add a favourite movieId to user's favourites
• /api/users/:username/movie/:id/favourites | POST | Deletes a movieId from a user's favourites

Security and Authentication

The application uses JWT Authentication to handle user sessions for important user functions like favourites and reviews.

Protected routes

• Favourite movies Page
• Add reviews page

Integrating with React App

• Most of the data in react app comes from this api.
• All favourite movie IDs are stored in MongoDB through this API. Users can easily find movies they have tagged every time they log in.
• All reviews are stored in MongoDB. Users can see their own reviews and reviews from other users

Independent learning (if relevant)

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