Movie Database Viewer

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App

Live Demo

https://www.mdbv.net

Overview

Movie Database Viewer (MDbV) is a React Single-page Application for browsing movies.

Features include:

• Near real-time updates for all movie information

• Detailed movie descriptions including overviews, taglines, MPAA ratings, release dates, runtimes, budget and revenue, spoken languages, production companies, cast and crew information, and user scores.

• Embedded movie trailers

• Ability to search for hundreds of thousands of movies

• Up-to-date view of trending movies

• Actor biographies and filmographies

• Movie favoriting system

• Responsive layout for all screen sizes

This project was designed and developed by Alberto Torrigiotti

Technologies Used

React

High performance JavaScript UI Library based on the component abstraction

React Hooks

Special JavaScript functions that enable the use of state, lifecycle methods, and other class component features inside functional components

React Router

Client-side routing that enables the Single-page Application pattern

PropTypes

React library for basic type checking

SWR

React Hooks library for fetching and caching based on the stale-while-revalidate caching strategy

SCSS

Superset of CSS and newer syntax of the Sass preprocessor. Features include selector nesting, partials, and mixins.

SCSS Modules

Files achieving locally scoped class selectors by compiling them into globally unique names.

Web Storage API

API providing mechanisms for storing key/value pairs that persist for the duration of a session or across sessions

License

Licensed under the MIT License