Readme.md

CineHoard

Check out movies from a wide variety of genres, add to your favorites, and build your watchlist.

Setup

These steps will set up project locally on you machine. To deploy it on heroku, read the instructions at the end.
Clone the project and install all the dependencies using:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Add your API_KEY in a private.py file in root directory of project.
Now make migrations using:

python manage.py makemigrations

then apply migrations using:

python manage.py migrate

Activating the cron job:

Run following command to activate the cron job:

python manage.py crontab add

Now cron job will run after the interval specified in CRONJOBS in settings.py

Usage

Run

python manage.py add_movies

to add configured count (you can configure this count in constants.py file in movies directory) of movies.
Run

python manage.py runserver

to start the app.

Deployment on Heroku

Follow steps below to deploy the app on heroku:

• Make sure there's a file named Procfile in root directory._
• Run pip install gunicorn
• Your Procfile should have this line:

web: gunicorn cinehoard.wsgi

• Run pip install psycopg2-binary
• Create an app on heroku and add heroku remote to git:

heroku git:remote -a your-heroku-app-name

• Now commit all the changes and push to heroku:

git push heroku main

or

git push heroku master

• Heroku will build the project and attach an ad-on of Postgresql to your app (Heroku doesn't support sqlite or any file based DB).
• Go to your app settings, you'll get DATABASE_URL in the config vars.
• Follow instructions here https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-python?singlepage=true#provision-a-database to set up the database.
• Once the database migrations are done, you'll be able to access the backend at your heroku app url.

Running it Altogether

Once you have set up the backend, start the backend and frontend apps. Go to http://localhost:3000, you'll now have a working app.