Video Club

Video Club is a web app for browsing through a variety of movies and TV series. Users can browse through different categories of movies and TV series. When the user selects a movie or a TV series, detailed information about that movie or TV series is displayed, such as trailers, ratings, and cast. Movie and TV data is fetched from the TMDB API.

Preview

Features

• User login and session support.
• Responsive design across different screen sizes.
• Browse movies and TV series by predefined categories.
• View detailed information for each movie or TV series.
• Watch trailers.
• View ratings and cast information.

Tech Stack

Frontend & Templating

• HTML5
• CSS3
• JavaScript
• Bootstrap
• EJS

Backend

• Node.js
• Express.js

API Integration

• TMDB API
• Axios

Authentication & Session Management

• TMDB Authentication
• express-session

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js
• TMDB account

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/andreaskalo/video-club.git

2. Navigate to the project directory:

   cd video-club

3. Install the dependencies:

   npm install

Environment Variables

Create a .env file in the root directory based on .env.example.

TMDB_ACCESS_TOKEN=your_tmdb_access_token
SESSION_SECRET=your_session_secret

To get the TMDB_ACCESS_TOKEN, follow the steps below:

• Go to: https://www.themoviedb.org/
• Log in or create a TMDB account
• Go to Profile & Settings and navigate to Settings
• Go to API
• Copy the API Read Access Token and set it as the value of TMDB_ACCESS_TOKEN

For SESSION_SECRET, use a strong random string.

Run the Application

Start the server:

npm start

Then open: http://localhost:3000

Credits

This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

Movie and TV data and images are provided by The Movie Database (TMDB).