React Cinema

Let's revisit our first project where we built a movie search engine using the Open Movie Database. This time we want to implement it using React. It should be a Single Page App, that is all the functionality should be on a single page, rather switch between multiple pages.

Before starting to code produce a diagram using pen and paper of your application which shows both layout and a tree diagram of the components.

What are some of the components you are going to need? Which components will fetch data and how will that data be displayed? Which components will store state and how will they pass data to other components? Which components should be re-used? Rather than re-implementing your previous solution again have a think about what you have learned in the past week and how you can apply it here.

You can start coding once your plan has been checked by a TA or instructor.

The brief

We want to create a movie search engine. To power it we will use the Open Movie Database API.

To start using the OMDB API you will first need to sign up with them to receive and API key. The key issued to you will allow you 1000 requests per day and you will need to include this key as part of every request.

To get started, fork and clone this repo. Please submit a pull request after your first commit and push commits regularly.

You should complete as many of the following tasks as you can.

• Work using mobile first, that is create the mobile version first and add tablet and desktop versions after.
• Create an HTML page which should have a form at the top which contains a text input and a submit button. Below it should have a placeholder element for the returned results.
• Use JavaScript to capture the submit event in your search form, extract the query string from the text input and use that to make an API call to the Open Movie Database API to search for films which match the query string using fetch. console.log the results
• Display the data returned by the API including title, year and poster picture

Movie details

• Adjust your layout to create room for a detailed view of movie information
• Capture clicks on your movie results items and use that information to make another request to the API for detailed movie information. Using event delegation will help you here. console.log the returned result
• Display the detailed movie result in the in the details view you created earlier
• Make your design responsive and ensure it looks great at different screen widths

Your own feature

• Implement any feature you would find useful or interesting

Stretch goals

• Implement pagination so that users can navigate between all movies in search results rather than just the first ten
• Create a favourites list. It's up to you how you would add items to favourites. You could add a button or otherwise. Display a list of favourites somewhere on your page.
• Make the favourites list sortable. Add up and down buttons to your favourites which on click will move the result in relevant direction
• Save favourites locally using localStorage so that favourites persist in browser after refresh
• Let's create a search preview. It should listen for input events and submit a search request with current query string. Display the search preview results in an absolute positioned container just below the search box.
  Hint: You may want to kick of the searching after at least 3 characters have been typed.

Objectives

• We want to see great looking webpages that work well at all screen widths
• Your code should have consistent indentation and sensible naming
• Use lots of concise, reusable functions with a clear purpose
• Add code comments where it is not immediately obvious what your code does
• Your code should not throw errors and handle edge cases gracefully. For example not break if server fails to return expected results
• Use BEM methodology to style your page
• Try to use pure functions as much as possible, but keep in mind it will not be possible to make all functions pure.

README.md

When finished, include a README.md in your repo. Someone who is not familiar with the project should be able to look at it and understand what it is and what to do with it. Explain functionality created, mention any outstanding issues and possible features you would include if you had more time. List technologies used to create the app. Include a screenshot of your app in the README.