Movie Database Application

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.

Running the application

npm start

Starts the frontend for the application

npm start:backend

Starts the backend with node

npm start:backend:dev

Starts the backend with nodemon for development

Environment variables

Create .env file in the top level directory with the following variables

• DB_HOST - Connection string to MongoDB
• LOGGING - Boolean value to allow general logging
• VERBOSE - Boolean value to allow for verbose error logging from the endpoints
• REACT_APP_SERVER_HOST - URL to where the server is hosted, defaults to localhost
• REACT_APP_SERVER_PORT - Port to run the endpoints on, defaults to 8080
• API_KEY - API key for TMDB to get recommendations
  • Can be acquired here
• DB_NAME - Name of Mongo database to be used, defaults to mydb
• COLLECTION - Collection to be used in the Mongo database, defaults to movies

MongoDB

Expects a database named mydb with a collection named movies if none of the optional enviornment variables are used