Flask Movie App

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A movie watchlist application.

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Description

A watch-list app built with Flask using the TMDB API with CRUD and user authentication. The application makes use of the movie database API (tmdb).

Features

Here are the features in summary:

App displays popular movies, upcoming movies and latest movies
User can search and review any movie.

Requirements

This program requires python3.+ (and pip) installed, a guide on how to install python on various platforms can be found here
PostgresSQL was used in this project as the database client, however fell free to use whichever cliet you prefer (this documentaion is based on Postgres)
- To download postgres, follow this link

Installation and Set-up

To view the app, open the live site link provided below on the README.
Here is a run through of how to set up the application:

Step 1 : Clone this repository using git clone https://github.com/collinsmuriuki/flask-movie-app.git, or downloading a ZIP file of the code.
Step 2 : The repository, if downloaded as a .zip file will need to be extracted to your preferred location and opened
Step 3 : Go to the project root directory and install the virtualenv library using pip an afterwards create a virtual environment. Run the following commands respectively:
- pip install virtualenv
- virtualenv virtual
- source virtual/bin/activate
  - Note that you can exit the virtual environment by running the command deactivate
Step 4 : Download the all dependencies in the requirements.txt using pip install -r requirements.txt
Step 5 : Go to the the movie database (TMDB) API WEBSITE, sign up for a free account and generate an API key.
- Create a .sh (shell)file in your root directory called start.sh and store the API key like so export API_KEY="<your-key>"
- On the same file write down the command python3 manage.py server
- This project uses flask-mail to send emails on account creation; therefore you can export your email and password for SMTP authentication export MAIL_USERNAME="<your-gmail-address>" and export MAIL_PASSWORD="<your-gmail-password>"
- You should have something like this:
```
export MOVIE_API_KEY="<your-api-key>"
export SECRET_KEY="<your-secret-key>"
export MAIL_USERNAME="<your-gmail-address>"
export MAIL_PASSWORD="<your-gmail-password>"
python3 manage.py server
```
Step 6 : If you are using postgresql, run the server on a separate terminal tab/window using postgres
- Then on another terminal tab/window, run the command psql to enter the postgresql shell
- Create a database called ‘watchlist’ by typing the command CREATE DATABASE watchlist;
- Set a password for your database by running this command ALTER USER <username> WITH PASSWORD "<new_password>";
- Now go back to the project directory, in the config.py file, set your SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI in the Config class following the following format:
  SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI="postgresql+psycopg2://<username>:<password>@localhost/watchlist"
- Side note: you will notice that on the TestConfig class, the database uri is linked to a test database, you can create one for testing purposes, otherwise, ignore.
Step 7 : Run the following command to upgrade your database to current schema:
```
python manage.py db upgrade
```
Step 8 : On your terminal, run the following command, chmod +x start.sh to make the shell file from step 5 executable
- You can now launch the application locally by running the command ./start.sh
- Open your preferred browser and view the app by opening the link http://127.0.0.1:5000/.

IMPORTANT

NOTE: For deployment purposes, on the manage.py file, be sure to change from “development” config options to “production” like so: app = create_app("production")
NOTE: If you cloned this project before 17/11/2019, the default config options in the manage.py file were set to “production”, be sure to switch to “development” like so: app = create_app("development")
NOTE: This project uses flask-migrate to keep track of changes made to the schema; therefore, any time you make changes to the schema in the models.py module; make sure you run the following command:
```
python manage.py db migrate -m "<migration message>"
```
- You can read more about flask-migrate by checking out their documentation

Deployment

If you wish to deploy your app on heroku, you can follow the steps on this gist

Known Bugs

Styling bug: There seems to be an inconsistent arrangement of movie thumbnails on landing page as well as search results page.

Technologies Used

Python 3.7.4
Flask 1.1.1
HTML
CSS
PostgreSQL
Bootstrap 3.3.7