Movie Look Up

Movie Look Up is an operational project works exactly like IMDb, expect the data doesn't get updated daily since there is no web crawling and the movies don't include the corresponding pictures.

For the front-end and the back-end code development, I have used JavaScript/React/MUI and Python. For handling communication between front-end and back-end I used Flask and Axios.

For data storage and retrieval, I have used MySQL Database. 

In this project I have learned to use Jupyter Notebook, to run my Python codes.

For the purpose of this project, I have used Jupyter Notebook to parse the CSV file that I have used for creating Movie Look Up. You can view the source codes in repository here!

The home page of the project consist of home page, which randomly shows some movies as main focus of the page. On the left side there is section, displaying the top 10 movies with a drop down menu to choose the best top 10 based on genre. On the bottom of the page there is carousel scroller for random movies to choose from.

The project also includes search bar and the searching function allows users to search based on choosing genre, country of origin or language to find movies accordingly. Users, can also search anything they wish to, on search bar and if any data matches with search, it will be displayed on the result page. 

Results are displayed after each search, and within the search results the key word that has been searched is highlighted among the results. 

In this project I have also learned to cache data. For starters, I created a second server, which acted like a bridge between fron-end and back-end. From there on, I learned how cache data in between and store them. Anytime, there is a query request for data to be displayed, it will be dispatched from cache, unless it's been a page or data that haven't been cached yet.