First created on: 09/09/2024
I am a avid film fan so when my nephew introduced me to the TMDB (The Movie Database - RESTful API) on one of his demo projects i was keen to give it a go myself and try it out.
In order to utilise the TMDB API effectively across multiple project types i decided to make a C# wrapper (Class library project) for it. This project includes some basic unit tests for the API as well as a console based test harness for testing out commands.
Project URL: https://github.com/NostalgicCoder/TmdbApi.Lib
The second part of this project (This Codebase) is a full-stack web application built around ASP.NET MVC Core with a SQL Server database backend. The application utilises the C# wrapped version of the TMDB RESTful API to perform the below capabilities:
- Movie, TV, actor search.
- Display of movies currently showing in UK cinemas.
- Display of detailed movie information.
- Display of detailed TV show information.
- Display of detailed actor information.
- Ability to mark movie/TV shows the user has watched and have them listed under a dedicated page for reference.
- Ability to mark or delete favourite actors and have them displayed under a dedicated page for reference.
- Display of data in a numeric or graph form on the users film/TV habits giving information such as most popular years, genres, decades as well as quantity of movies/TV watched.
- Highlights movie/TV runtime, TMDB score/popularity in different colours to indicate there value (low, medium or high).
- Filter by English or worldwide search results.
- Filter watched media and actor results using a keyword search.
Technologies / Principles Used:
- C#
- .NET 8.0
- .NET Core
- ASP.NET MVC Core
- JavaScript
- JQuery
- CSS / Bootstrap themes & icons
- RESTful API
- TMDB API (The Movie Database)
- RestSharp
- Newtonsoft.Json
- Entity Framework - Code first approach
- SQL Server Express
- TDD (Microsoft Test Framework, Fluent Assertions, Fluent Validation)
- Dependency Injection
- Pagination - Used to maintain page performance
Requirements:
- SQL Server Express database to be installed
- Developer license key for TMDB API (The Movie Database)
- TmdbApi.Lib (GitHub Project - Can be found here: https://github.com/NostalgicCoder/TmdbApi.Lib)
Resources / Credits:
- https://www.themoviedb.org/?language=en-GB
- https://developer.themoviedb.org/reference/intro/getting-started
- https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.3/getting-started/introduction/
- https://icons.getbootstrap.com/
- https://bootswatch.com/sandstone/
- https://www.chartjs.org/docs/latest/
- https://www.w3schools.com/ai/ai_chartjs.asp
- (Pagination) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md3W1Ccssg8&list=WL&index=21
- (Pagination) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9VtwtoLvy8&list=WL&index=20
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