brian-trann/yearone-challenge-backend

Movie App - YearOne challenge - Backend

This portion of the app is a part of a take home challenge for YearOne

You will need and API_KEY from https://www.omdbapi.com/ in order for this app to properly work.

Demo

See the frontend repo here.

Environment Variables

To run this project, you will need to add the following environment variables to your .env file

API_KEY

and optionally:

NODE_ENV SECRET_KEY

Run Locally

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/brian-trann/yearone-challenge-backend.git

Go to the project directory

  cd yearone-challenge-backend

Install dependencies

  npm install

Initialize the PostgreSQL Database

• Make sure you have PostgreSQL installed
• NOTE: running the next command will DROP yearone_takehome and yearone_takehome_test databases, if they exist.

  psql < yearone.sql

Start the server

  npm run start

API Reference

Get movie by search

  GET /movies/search

Query	Type	Description
title	string	Required. A title to search for

Example:

movies/search/?title=${title}

Get movie by ID

  GET /movies/${id}

Parameter	Type	Description
id	string	Required. ID of item to fetch

Like / Dislike a movie

  POST /movies/${id}

Parameter	Type	Description
id	string	Required. ID of item to fetch

Query	Type	Description
command	string	Required. like or dislike

Example:

movies/${id}?command=dislike
movies/${id}?command=like

PostgreSQL Schema

Movie Table

Column	Type	Description	Default
id	string	PRIMARY KEY. ID of movie
likes	integer	Number of likes	0
dislikes	integer	Number of dislikes	0

Tech Stack

Client: React

Server: Node, Express