React Movie Cards

A basic application that displays a list of movies as a list of cards. Each card provides movie detail such as title, subtitle, description, image, and rating.

Go here for live demo.

This is a good example of using nested components because it illustrates a nesting of components 3 levels deep. A Movie component has a MovieList component has a MovieCard component has a StarRating component. The Movie component also uses a service called MovieService to retrieve a list of movies (this is from a json document).

Futhermore, I have configured webpack to make use of the copy-webpack-plugin to copy images into the public folder. I have also included the json-loader to load my movie collection from a json file called movies.json.

For styling, I have adopted bootstrap4 beta. I use SCSS for all custom written styles.

The application is composed of the following components:

• Header - A heading that displays application title

• Movies - The primary (root) component that manages state for Movies and all underlying components. It is also responsible for connecting to MovieService to retrieve movie data

• MovieList - Groups a collection of movies

• MovieCard - Represents a single instance of a movie

• StarRating - Indicates average rating of a movie as a list of 5 stars

Component Diagram

The following services are used to obtain movie data:

• MovieService - A wrapper that retrieves data from a json file containing a list of movies

Service Diagram

This project also demonstrates:

• a typcial React project layout structure
• babel setup and configuration
• webpack setup and configuration
• eslint setup and configuration
• SCSS setup and configuration

Screenshots:

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Developed With

• Node.js - Javascript runtime
• React - A javascript library for building user interfaces
• Babel - A transpiler for javascript
• Webpack - A module bundler
• SCSS - A css metalanguage
• Bootstrap 4 - Bootstrap is an open source toolkit for developing with HTML, CSS, and JS
• Surge - Static web publishing for Front-End Developers

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Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

The following software is required to be installed on your system:

• Node 8.x
• Npm 3.x

Type the following commands in the terminal to verify your node and npm versions

node -v
npm -v

Install

Follow the following steps to get development environment running.

• Clone 'react-movie-cards' repository from GitHub

  git clone https://github.com/drminnaar/react-movie-cards.git

  OR USING SSH

  git clone [email protected]:drminnaar/react-movie-cards.git

• Install node modules

  cd react-movie-cards
  npm install
  npm dedupe

Build

• Build application

  This command will also run ESLint as part of build process.

  npm run build

• Build application and start watching for changes

  This command will also run ESLint as part of build process.

  npm run build:watch

Run ESlint

• Lint project using ESLint

  npm run lint

• Lint project using ESLint, and autofix

  npm run lint:fix

Run

• Run start

  This will run the 'serve' npm task

  npm start

• Run webpack dev server

  npm run serve:dev

• Alternatively run live-server (simple development http server with live reload capability)

  npm run serve

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Versioning

I use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Authors

• Douglas Minnaar - Initial work - drminnaar