⚠️ NOTE: OMDb has gone private, requiring consumers to pay for the API. While I respect their decision, this small app is not something I'm willing to invest monthly in, and as such the project will no longer work if accessed via the Heroku link.
Application making use of the OMDb API to search and favorite movies.
Production site: https://omdb-favorites.herokuapp.com/
- Search for movies
- Choose your favorites
- Keep a running list of the films you appreciate most!
git clone git@github.com:indiesquidge/omdb-favorites.git
cd omdb-favorites
npm install
npm start
Head over to localhost:3000 to see the app!
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Ability to unfavorite a movie
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API testing
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Writing to a JSON file to store our information is hardly a working solution to mimic a database. First of all, it means that the list of favorites is shared across everyone using the app (there are ways around this with authentication), and secondly, it makes the API endpoints more difficult to test. We would be better off just storing the user's list of favorites as a
localStoragekey for this simple of an app. -
OMDb only shows the first 10 results for any search, despite the fact that many hundreds of movies may have matched. They actually return the number of matches there really were in the response object under the
totalResultskey. You can see the next page (e.g. results 11-20) by including thepagequery parameter (curl "https://www.omdbapi.com/?s='star wars'&page=2"). It would be nice to include "prev" and "next" buttons at the bottom of the results in order for the user to page through all matching movies