Movie/TV Show Recommender

Get Movie and TV Shows Recommendations Easily

Simple movie/tv shows recommendation site that recommends movies/shows similar to the requested movie/show , built using HTML,CSS, Javascript ,Node.js ,Express.js and EJS.

To see a Live Demo Go To - https://polar-chamber-42608.herokuapp.com/

This site uses the TMDB API to get a list of recommended movies for a requested movie which is then displayed on the page in a card layout.

• Built with HTML, CSS and Javascript
• EJS for creating templates
• ✨TMDB API ✨

Features

• Get similar Recommendations to your favourite movie/show
• Watch Trailers
• Get an average movie rating across all platforms
• User Ratings
• Release Date
• Movie Summary
• Check out current trends in Discover

Tech

Movie Recommender uses several libraries and frameworks to work properly:

• Bootstrap - Open Source CSS Framework having great UI boilerplate for modern web apps!

• TMDB API - Application Key Point

• axios - Promise based HTTP client for the browsers and node.js.

• ejs-mate - layout, partial and block template functions for the EJS template engine

• node.js - evented I/O for the backend

• Express - fast node.js network app framework

• body-parser - Node.js body parsing middleware.

• method-override - to use HTTP verbs such as PUT or DELETE in places where the client doesn't support it

Installation

Movie Recommender requires Node.js v10+ to run.

Download the ZIP file, install the dependencies using npm i.

Go to TMDB API, get your API KEY and put it on .env file in the format API_KEY=your_api_key

Now start the app using nodemon app.js

This app starts a server which listens on port 6450 for connections.

You can view your app here: http://localhost:6450/

Contributing

Contributions are what makes the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

• Fork the Project
• Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
• Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
• Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
• Open a Pull Request

Refer to this resource if you have difficulty creating pull request.