A Movie Finding App with Extensive Search

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## 📋 Table of Contents 1. 🤖 [Introduction](#introduction) 2. ⚙️ [Tech Stack](#tech-stack) 3. 🔋 [Features](#features) 4. 🤸 [Quick Start](#quick-start) 5. 🕸️ [Snippets (Code to Copy)](#snippets) 6. 🔗 [Assets](#links) 7. 🚀 [More](#more) ## 🚨 Tutorial This repository contains the code corresponding to an in-depth tutorial available on our YouTube channel, JavaScript Mastery. If you prefer visual learning, this is the perfect resource for you. Follow our tutorial to learn how to build projects like these step-by-step in a beginner-friendly manner!

## 🤖 Introduction Built with Expo, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS, this app fetches movies and creates a popularity algorithm using Appwrite. It provides users with a seamless browsing experience, ranking movies based on various engagement metrics. The app leverages modern UI/UX principles for a responsive and visually appealing interface, ensuring real-world scalability and performance. If you're getting started and need assistance or face any bugs, join our active Discord community with over **50k+** members. It's a place where people help each other out.

## ⚙️ Tech Stack - **[Expo](https://expo.dev/)** is an open-source platform for building universal native apps (Android, iOS, web) using JavaScript/TypeScript and React Native. It features file-based routing via Expo Router, fast refresh, native modules for camera/maps/notifications, over-the-air updates (EAS), and streamlined app deployment. - **[React Native](https://reactnative.dev/)** is a framework for building mobile UIs with React. It enables component‑based, cross-platform development with declarative UI, deep native API support, and is tightly integrated with Expo for navigation and native capabilities. - **[Appwrite](https://jsm.dev/rn25-appwrite)** is an open-source backend-as-a-service platform offering secure authentication (email/password, OAuth, SMS, magic links), databases, file storage with compression/encryption, real-time messaging, serverless functions, and static site hosting via Appwrite Sites—all managed through a unified console and microservices architecture. - **[TypeScript](https://www.typescriptlang.org/)** is a statically-typed superset of JavaScript providing type annotations, interfaces, enums, generics, and enhanced tooling. It improves error detection, code quality, and scalability—ideal for robust, maintainable projects. - **[Tailwind CSS](https://tailwindcss.com/)** is a utility-first CSS framework enabling rapid UI design via low-level classes. In React Native/Expo, it’s commonly used with NativeWind to apply Tailwind-style utilities to mobile components. - **[NativeWind](https://www.nativewind.dev/)** brings Tailwind CSS to React Native and Expo, allowing you to style mobile components using utility-first classes for fast, consistent, and responsive UI design. ## 🔋 Features ### Features of the Mobile Movie AppProject 👉 **Real-time data**: Fetching and displaying real-time movie data 👉 **Home Page**: Featured and discover movies 👉 **Search Page**: Search for your favorite movies 👉 **Popularity algorithm**: Track user searches to display the most popular movies and many more, including code architecture and reusability. ## 🤸 Quick Start Follow these steps to set up the project locally on your machine. **Prerequisites** Make sure you have the following installed on your machine: - [Git](https://git-scm.com/) - [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en) - [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/) (Node Package Manager) **Cloning the Repository** ```bash git clone https://github.com/adrianhajdin/rn-movie-app.git cd rn-movie-app ``` **Installation** Install the project dependencies using npm: ```bash npm install ``` **Set Up Environment Variables** Create a new file named `.env` in the root of your project and add the following content: ```env EXPO_PUBLIC_MOVIE_API_KEY= EXPO_PUBLIC_APPWRITE_PROJECT_ID= EXPO_PUBLIC_APPWRITE_DATABASE_ID= EXPO_PUBLIC_APPWRITE_COLLECTION_ID= ``` Replace the placeholder values with your actual TMDB API key, Appwrite project ID, Database ID, and Collection ID. You can obtain these credentials by signing up on the [Appwrite](https://jsm.dev/rn25-appwrite), [TMDB](https://www.themoviedb.org/login). **Running the Project** ```bash npx expo start ``` Open your ExpoGO app on your phone and scan the QR code to view the project. ## 🕸️ Snippets

tailwind.config.js

```typescript /** @type {import('tailwindcss').Config} */ module.exports = { content: ["./app/**/*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}", "./components/**/*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}"], presets: [require("nativewind/preset")], theme: { extend: { colors: { primary: "#030014", secondary: "#151312", ratingBox: "#221F3D", searchBar: "#0F0D23", text: "#9CA4AB", darkAccent: "#AB8BFF", accentText: "#A8B5DB", secondaryText: "#D6C7FF", }, }, }, plugins: [], }; ```

app/globals.css

```css @tailwind base; @tailwind components; @tailwind utilities; ```

interfaces/interfaces.d.ts

```typescript interface Movie { id: number; title: string; adult: boolean; backdrop_path: string; genre_ids: number[]; original_language: string; original_title: string; overview: string; popularity: number; poster_path: string; release_date: string; video: boolean; vote_average: number; vote_count: number; } interface TrendingMovie { searchTerm: string; movie_id: number; title: string; count: number; poster_url: string; } interface MovieDetails { adult: boolean; backdrop_path: string | null; belongs_to_collection: { id: number; name: string; poster_path: string; backdrop_path: string; } | null; budget: number; genres: { id: number; name: string; }[]; homepage: string | null; id: number; imdb_id: string | null; original_language: string; original_title: string; overview: string | null; popularity: number; poster_path: string | null; production_companies: { id: number; logo_path: string | null; name: string; origin_country: string; }[]; production_countries: { iso_3166_1: string; name: string; }[]; release_date: string; revenue: number; runtime: number | null; spoken_languages: { english_name: string; iso_639_1: string; name: string; }[]; status: string; tagline: string | null; title: string; video: boolean; vote_average: number; vote_count: number; } interface TrendingCardProps { movie: TrendingMovie; index: number; } ```

## 🔗 Assets Assets and snippets used in the project can be found in the **[video kit](https://jsm.dev/rn25-movie)**.

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