Websho

Websho is a movie streaming app which customizes its selection to the users viewing history. Choose from a catalog of 1000+ movies from more than 10 genres. You can also browse movies more easily by using the search functionality.

NOTE: You can also stream trailers of movies.

This repository is for the frontend React app, visit here for the backend code

Click here for the hosted app. The project was deployed using surge.

This project was created in Rails, React and Postgres.

Some of the techniques used to create this app:

• Created 4 Active Record models with PostgreSQL to store users, reviews, viewership patterns and a catalog of 1000+ movies.
• Seeded database with movie metadata obtained from TheMovieDB API.
• Created custom movie recommendation lists in Rails which were tailored to each users viewing history.
• Generated search results based on movie search queries.
• Used the react-youtube npm package to stream youtube trailers fetched from TheMovieDB.

To run this project first make sure you are running the rails server. Then run

1. npm install

2. npm start

And the app should start at localhost:3000

To deploy run:

npm run build

Then you can deploy the static files to any static site generator of your choice.