steven-wagner / movie-suggestor

Movie Suggester

Live page: https://movie-suggester.stevenwagner.now.sh

Description:

Get movie suggestions from people who like similar movies as you.

The inspiration for this app comes from studies that show that the best way to determine if an individual will like a new movie is to see whether their friends enjoyed it. Most current movie review sites take the average of all users or critics and try to predict the quality of the movie and the likelihood that someone will enjoy the movie, but people's tastes are eclectic and having an algorithm that is more personalized to the user will result in a better prediction of what each individual user will enjoy. The goal of this app is to connect users with similar tastes so that they can receive personalized movie suggestions that will be more accurate than a traditional movie review site at determining if that user will actually enjoy the movie.

Features:

Movie Suggestor allows you to follow people that have similar movie intrests and gives you movie suggestions based on the friends you follow.

It compares your reviews with other users and suggests people to follow that seem to have similar likes and dislikes.

Review movies in seconds and help the people that follow you get personalized movie suggestions.

Keep track of movies you've watched or remove movies from your list of suggestions.

Easily manage old reviews:

API Documentation:

This app utilizes an API that can be reviewed here: https://github.com/Steven-Wagner/movie-suggester-api

Technologies:

• HTML
• CSS
• Javascript
• Node.js
• Express
• React
• PostgreSQL
• chia, mocha, Jest, and Enzyme for testing

Recourses:

• OMDB.com - Movie Database
• Hosted on Now(Zeit) and Heroku

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.

movie-suggestor's Issues

Review Movies Form

Users must be able to review Movies

Movie titles should match movie database

Use a movie API/database to make sure that submitted movie titles actually exist

Form will include:

• title
• star rating (1-5)
• submit button
• cancel button

Update Review

When a user tries to make a rview on a movie they alraady reviewed it notifies them that they already reviwed the movie and asks if they would like update the review with the new information.

Show a response each time user gets a duplicate error in Reviews

When a user submits a review that has an error; the first time the user sees the change on the screen and is properly informed. However, if they make the same error again the screen shows the proper error message but does not indicate that it is a different message from the one they received the first time. Leading the user to think that the event was not registered by the client.

Already Seen It

Button for suggested titles where the user has already seen the movie and does not need it to be suggested. User should be prompted to review the movie after clicking

Sign-up

User must be able to sign up with login, username, password

Must have a table for users that include a password, login, username

Leave comments when review

Users should be able to leave comments in reviews

Add text field to review form

save comments in DB

Where would I show these comments?

Filter Suggested Movies

Users should be able to filter their suggested movies

-[ ] Release Date
-[ ] Number of Reviews
-[ ] Genre

Administrator Removes

Administrators should be able to remove users and movies from the database and create blacklists

View other Users

Users should see tags and bio of other users

• List of followees
• Show follower bio and reviews(reviews could use the same component that shows suggested reviews)

White space with no background

When there is no content for movie suggestions or friends the correct words appear but without the proper background. It should be given the grey background the with appropriate remote-edge classname.

Navigation Bar

Navigates to:

• Suggested Followers Link
• Login/logout
• Link to New Review
• Sign-up (only at landing page)

User Preference Tags

Users should be able to choose tags that movies might have to further refine their suggestions.

Include a curated list of tags

include add tags feature to review form

include tags in move table

Log-in

Users must be able to log into their account

Must have tables for users with login, password, and username

Must have authentication in place

Select ppl to follow

Users must see a list of users they can follow
and can choose to follow them

Must have a database of users, reviews, movies, followees

Iterate through users and try to match users' reviews with current user's reviews and see if the star ratings are close or match and recommend users to follow that have matching reviews

Content hidden below nav bar

Some content is hidden below the fixed nav bar and the content needs to be lower so that it looks centered below the nav.

Remove Followees

Users should have the option to remove followers

Must have a place for users to browse the people they follow(should be able to use suggested followees components?)

Remove followee button

Remove followee from followee table

Suggestion Page/Main User Page

User can see suggestions by the people they follow along with Navigate to other options and filter results

To Complete:
Get data on reviews of users they follow
Average the reviews
Show list sorted highest to lowest
Will need a database of Users, Followees, Reviews, and Movies

Landing Page

Users must have a landing page before logging in that describes the purpose of the app and what next steps they should take.

• Add screenshots

• -Must have a log-in and sign-up

• -Must have a description of the app

Ignore Suggestions Button

Users can choose to ignore certain titles so they will no longer appear as suggestions

Must have a table for titles to ignore

Must filter suggestion results through this table