flc-movie-review-website: A CSS repository from ganeshpaih24

FLC-Movie-Review-Website

A Hackfest Project for Movie Reviews. Using this platform ‘Bit Movies’ user can get the information about any movie. User can search for a movie and also give reviews and rating. It allows people who are new to sign up and create a new account whereas people who already have existing accounts can sign in to get the information about a movie. Ratings from various other review websites like IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic are also available. Hence, the user can easily decide whether a movie is good or bad. User can also add the movies and web series to watchlist and watched categories. This will allow the user to search for a good movie.

Backend Framework: Django
Frontend Technologies: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Bootstrap
APIs: OMDB, Cloudinary
Deployment: Railway

Installation

Fork and Clone
1. Fork the Repo
2. Clone the repo to your computer.
Create a Virtual Environment for the Project

In Windows
```
python -m venv env

env\Scripts\activate
```
In Ubuntu/MacOS
```
python -m virtualenv env

source env/bin/activate
```
If you are giving a different name then venv, then please mention it in .gitignore file first
Install all the requirements
```
pip install -r requirements.txt
```
Start a postgres database called 'bit-movies-flc' on default port (5432)
Create .env in project root folder and add the following
```
SECRET_KEY=<django_secret_key>
DATABASE_URL=<your_database_url>
API_KEY=<cloudinary_api_key>
API_SECRET=<cloudinary_api_secret>
CLOUD_NAME=<cloudinary_cloud_name>
```
- DATABASE_URL in env is in the form of postgres://user:pass@host/dbname
- SECRET_KEY can be generated using get_random_secret_key() method
```
from django.core.management.utils import get_random_secret_key
print(get_random_secret_key())
```
- Cloudinary related env vars can be accessed by signing up on Cloudinary and opening up the dashboard.

Make migrations

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

Create a super user. In django if you want to access admin page, you need to create an account first.
```
python manage.py createsuperuser
```
Then select your username and password.
Run server
```
python manage.py runserver
```