Machbuster

Welcome to Machbuster! Machbuster is a web app that allows users to manage their movie watchlist. Users can create an account, explore upcoming releases or favorites, and curate a personal watchlist for a tailored cinematic experience.

To visit Machbuster click here

Tech Stack:

Frontend

• React.js, Javascript, CSS, Material UI

Backend

• Django, Python Database: Postgres

Other Technologies

• Docker for containerization
• AWS for deployment

Installation

This project is containerized using docker to reduce dependency issues so docker must be installed and running on your local machine.

• Click here to install Docker

Two API Keys are required to access movie data and can be obtained by following the links below:

• Movies Database Rapid API Key: Click here

• OMDB Movie API Key: Click here

Run the command below from the project's root directory to allow execute permissions

chmod 755 run-compose-dev.sh

Run the file that 'execute permissions' were given to in the first step and pass in the following 7 parameters replacing the two API key parameters with the ones you obtained from the links given above:

• SECRET_KEY
• DEBUG (True or False)
• POSTGRES_DB
• POSTGRES_USER
• POSTGRES_PASSWORD
• OMDB Movie API Key
• Movie Database Rapid API Key

./run-compose-dev.sh abc123 True movie_db postgres postgres <inserrt OMDB API Key> <Insert Movie Database Rapid API Key>

Navigate to localhost:80 in your browser