A Good Scare Web App

A Good Scare is a personal project aimed at fans of horror movies. Its goal is to sharpen my full stack development skills as well as to provide people with a tool that I've always wanted for myself.

Description

As a lifelong horror fan, I often find it frustrating trying to find ratings for genre-films that aren't skewed heavily by the general public. While those ratings are certainly helpful for a large percentage of the audience, horror fans will usually have a different set of criteria for what makes a movie worth watching or not than the public at large.

Not only that, I sometimes forget which movies I've seen or not, especially when they'e not all that great. Because of this, I've accidentally re-watched the first dozen or so minutes of a movie before I remember that it wasn't even worth watching in the first place.

To solve these problems, I've created A Good Scare. This web app will allow users to create a watchlist, rate movies, and leave reviews with the hopes that horror fans can collaboratively generate a fan-based score and horror resource.

Current Features Include:

• Third-party API integration with TMDB's movie search and details APIs

• Registration

• Authentication / Authorization

• A Watchlist

• Ability to rate movies

• Ability to review movies as well as edit existing reviews

• More features in-progress

Technologies Used

• Fronted

  • React

  • TypeScript

  • React Context

  • Tanstack Query / React Query

  • React Router

  • MUI

  • Axios

• Backend

  • Node.js

  • Express

  • Drizzle

  • HttpOnly cookies

  • JWT

• Data

  • PostgreSQL

• Hosted on Render