A Movie Finding App with Extensive Search

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📋 Table of Contents

1. 🤖 Introduction

2. ⚙️ Tech Stack

3. 🔋 Features

4. 🤸 Quick Start

5. 🕸️ Snippets (Code to Copy)

6. 🔗 Assets

7. 🚀 More

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🤖 Introduction

Built with Expo, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS, this app fetches movies and creates a popularity algorithm using Appwrite. It provides users with a seamless browsing experience, ranking movies based on various engagement metrics. The app leverages modern UI/UX principles for a responsive and visually appealing interface, ensuring real-world scalability and performance.

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⚙️ Tech Stack

• Expo

• React Native

• Appwrite

• TypeScript

• Tailwind CSS

🔋 Features

Features of the Mobile Movie AppProject

👉 Real-time data: Fetching and displaying real-time movie data

👉 Home Page: Featured and discover movies

👉 Search Page: Search for your favorite movies

👉 Popularity algorithm: Track user searches to display the most popular movies

(etc)

and many more, including code architecture and reusability.

🤸 Quick Start

Follow these steps to set up the project locally on your machine.

Prerequisites

Make sure you have the following installed on your machine:

• Git

• Node.js

• npm (Node Package Manager)

Cloning the Repository

git clone https://github.com/adrianhajdin/rn-movie-app.git

cd rn-movie-app

Installation

Install the project dependencies using npm:

npm install

Set Up Environment Variables

Create a new file named .env in the root of your project and add the following content:

EXPO_PUBLIC_MOVIE_API_KEY=

EXPO_PUBLIC_APPWRITE_PROJECT_ID=

EXPO_PUBLIC_APPWRITE_DATABASE_ID=

EXPO_PUBLIC_APPWRITE_COLLECTION_ID=

Replace the placeholder values with your actual TMDB API key, Appwrite project ID, Database ID, and Collection ID. You can obtain these credentials by signing up on the Appwrite, TMDB.

Running the Project

npx expo start

Open your ExpoGO app on your phone and scan the QR code to view the project.

🕸️ Snippets

tailwind.config.js

/** @type {import('tailwindcss').Config} */
module.exports = {
  content: ["./app/**/*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}", "./components/**/*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}"],
  presets: [require("nativewind/preset")],
  theme: {
    extend: {
      colors: {
        primary: "#030014",
        secondary: "#151312",
        ratingBox: "#221F3D",
        searchBar: "#0F0D23",
        text: "#9CA4AB",
        darkAccent: "#AB8BFF",
        accentText: "#A8B5DB",
        secondaryText: "#D6C7FF",
      },
    },
  },
  plugins: [],
};

app/globals.css

@tailwind base;
@tailwind components;
@tailwind utilities;

interfaces/interfaces.d.ts

interface Movie {
  id: number;
  title: string;
  adult: boolean;
  backdrop_path: string;
  genre_ids: number[];
  original_language: string;
  original_title: string;
  overview: string;
  popularity: number;
  poster_path: string;
  release_date: string;
  video: boolean;
  vote_average: number;
  vote_count: number;
}

interface TrendingMovie {
  searchTerm: string;
  movie_id: number;
  title: string;
  count: number;
  poster_url: string;
}

interface MovieDetails {
  adult: boolean;
  backdrop_path: string | null;
  belongs_to_collection: {
    id: number;
    name: string;
    poster_path: string;
    backdrop_path: string;
  } | null;
  budget: number;
  genres: {
    id: number;
    name: string;
  }[];
  homepage: string | null;
  id: number;
  imdb_id: string | null;
  original_language: string;
  original_title: string;
  overview: string | null;
  popularity: number;
  poster_path: string | null;
  production_companies: {
    id: number;
    logo_path: string | null;
    name: string;
    origin_country: string;
  }[];
  production_countries: {
    iso_3166_1: string;
    name: string;
  }[];
  release_date: string;
  revenue: number;
  runtime: number | null;
  spoken_languages: {
    english_name: string;
    iso_639_1: string;
    name: string;
  }[];
  status: string;
  tagline: string | null;
  title: string;
  video: boolean;
  vote_average: number;
  vote_count: number;
}

interface TrendingCardProps {
  movie: TrendingMovie;
  index: number;
}

🔗 Assets

• Assets used in the project can be found here

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