• Project Planning
  • Overview
  • Wireframes
  • MVP
    • Goals
    • Libraries
    • Data
    • Component Hierarchy
    • Component Breakdown
    • Component Estimates
    • Helper Functions
  • Post-MVP
• Project Delivery
  • Code Showcase
  • Code Issues & Resolutions

Project Planning

Overview

aMDB
https://unruffled-curran-775cfe.netlify.app/

aMDB is a TV and movie database single page application that allows users to search for a show and see its ratings, reviews, summary, and other details. It also offers lists for what is trending in certain categories and by specific time frames, and a suggestion feature for when you can't decide what to watch.

Wireframes

• Main

• Detail

MVP

aMDB will offer search functionality to find details about the requested movie or TV series. The focus of this app is on the interactivity of the interface, allowing for a pleasant user experience. It should be responsive, with most components offering dynamic interaction.

Goals

• Search for movies or tv series
• Show trending or popular titles
• Search by title or actor

Libraries

Library	Description
React Router	Allow for routing to different pages of the app without page reload
Material UI	Nice UI component library for more stremalined interface
Axios	Nice library for making HTTP requests
React Infinite Scroll	Nice library for incrementally rendering large amounts of data
React Loader Spinner	Nice library for rendering a loading spinner when loading state is true
React View Slider	Nice library for implementing a sliding carousel

Data

API	Quality Docs?	Website	Sample Query
OMDB	yes	omdbapi.com	http://www.omdbapi.com/?apikeyfdbaa0a9&s=&y=2020
theMovieDB	yes	themoviedb.org	https://api.themoviedb.org/3/trending/all/week

{
    "Title": "Avatar",
    "Year": "2009",
    "Rated": "PG-13",
    "Released": "18 Dec 2009",
    "Runtime": "162 min",
    "Genre": "Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi",
    "Director": "James Cameron",
    "Writer": "James Cameron",
    "Actors": "Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang",
    "Plot": "A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.",
    "Language": "English, Spanish",
    "Country": "USA",
    "Awards": "Won 3 Oscars. Another 86 wins & 129 nominations.",
    "Poster": "https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTYwOTEwNjAzMl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODc5MTUwMw@@._V1_SX300.jpg",
    "Ratings": [
        {
            "Source": "Internet Movie Database",
            "Value": "7.8/10"
        },
        {
            "Source": "Rotten Tomatoes",
            "Value": "82%"
        },
        {
            "Source": "Metacritic",
            "Value": "83/100"
        }
    ],
    "Metascore": "83",
    "imdbRating": "7.8",
    "imdbVotes": "1,091,877",
    "imdbID": "tt0499549",
    "Type": "movie",
    "DVD": "N/A",
    "BoxOffice": "N/A",
    "Production": "N/A",
    "Website": "N/A",
    "Response": "True"
}

Component Hierarchy

src
|__ assets/
      |__ data-tests
      |__ mockups
|__ components/
      |__ header/
            |__ header.component.jsx
            |__ header.styles.css
      |__ footer/
            |__ footer.component.jsx
            |__ footer.styles.css
      |__ search/
            |__ search.component.jsx
            |__ search.styles.css
|__ pages/
      |__ main/
            |__ main.component.jsx
            |__ main.styles.css
      |__ trending/
            |__ trending.component.jsx
            |__ trending.styles.css
      |__ detail/
            |__ detail.component.jsx
            |__ detail.styles.css

Component Breakdown

Component	Type	State	Props	Description
Header	functional	n	n	The header will contain the navigation and logo.
Main	functional	y	n	The main will be the landing page and display the current data in state.
Trending	functional	n	y	Trending will fetch and show the currently trending series
Search	functional	n	y	Search will be in the header component and will fetch data
Detail	functional	n	y	Detail will render specific detail about the selected series
Footer	functional	n	n	The footer will show info about me and a link to my portfolio.

Component Estimates

Task	Priority	Estimated Time	Time Invested	Actual Time
CSS	H	10 hrs	10 hrs	10 hrs
UI Interface	H	10 hrs	14 hrs	14 hrs
Search	H	7 hrs	2 hrs	2 hrs
Routing	H	2 hrs	3 hrs	3 hrs
HTML	H	1 hr	1 hr	1 hr
TOTAL		30 hrs	30 hrs	30 hrs

Post-MVP

• Add user account and auth capabilities.
• Add a watch list.

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Project Delivery

Code Showcase

This is an event handler function that I had previously written with 4x the amount of code, but Mike helped me refactor it down to the much simpler and more efficient version that's shown here.

  const handleChange = (event, newValue) => {
    setValue(newValue);
    const target = event.target.innerText;
    if (lastChecked === '') {
      setChecked({
        ...checked,
        [target]: true
      });
    } else {
      setChecked({
        ...checked,
        [lastChecked]: false,
        [target]: true
      });
    }
    setLastChecked(target);
  };

Code Issues & Resolutions

This project was a tremendous learning experience in using Material UI, setting up dynamic routes, and properly structuring my component hierarchy to take advantage of the routes that I had set up. I didn't stumble across any major issues during development, but I had to read a lot of documentation to learn how to use some of the libraries that I ended up using for transition effects.