Frontend Mentor - Entertainment web app solution

This is a solution to the Entertainment web app challenge on Frontend Mentor. Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building realistic project.

Table of contents

• Overview
  • The challenge
  • Screenshot
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Continued development
  • Useful resources
• Author

Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• View the optimal layout for the app depending on their device's screen size
• See hover states for all interactive elements on the page
• Navigate between Home, Movies, TV Series, and Bookmarked Shows pages
• Add/Remove bookmarks from all movies and TV series
• Search for relevant shows on all pages
• Bonus: Build this project as a full-stack application
• Bonus: If you're building a full-stack app, we provide authentication screen (sign-up/login) designs if you'd like to create an auth flow

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: Solution
• Live Site URL: Live Site

My process

Built with

• React
• TypeScript
• Tailwind CSS
• Next.js
• Next Auth
• Prisma
• PostgreSQL
• React Hook Form

What I learned

This was the first time I worked on a full-stack web application, so I got learn a lot about interacting with databases. I built the UI from the Figma file, and implemented all of the functionalities using Next.js and Tailwind CSS. I learnt how to use Prisma to interact with both a local sqlite database and a deployed postgresql database. I also learnt how to implement user authentication with custom log-in/sign-up pages using next auth. I learnt how to use react hook form to manage form data and validate the form values. I also learnt how to implement a theme switch using Tailwind CSS and next-theme. In all, this was a great learning experience for me as a frontend engineer.

Continued development

I still intend on continuing this project and expanding on some of it's features. I plan on adding an external movie API, as I'm currently making use of a dummy local JSON file. Then I would include some other features like watching videos and seeing more details about the movies.

Useful resources

• Full Stack Authentication with Next-Auth and Next.js 13: All You Need to Know - This helped me while implementing the Authentication for the web app. I'd recommend it to anyone trying to laern authentication with Next Auth.

Author

• Website - Victor Williams
• Frontend Mentor - @victorcodess
• Twitter - @victorwill__