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Movie Web Application with ReactJS

Last Updated : 30 Jul, 2024

React Movie APP is a movie web application project that involves creating components to display a list of movies and details about each movie along with a search functionality.

Preview Image of Final Output:

Screenshot-from-2023-10-12-18-04-13

Approach for React Movie App

To create the movie web application in React we will be using an API that provides data according to the query in the search box. Use axios to fetch teh data and display using an array map in the results component. Also the details component shows the complete details of that particular movie when clicked on it.

Steps to Create Movie Web Application App:

We will be following the below steps for creating our application:

Step 1: Initialize the project named movie-app using the npm command in the terminal

npx create-react-app movie-app

Step 2: Change your directory and enter your main folder charting as

cd movie-app

Step 3: Install axios:

npm i axios

Project Structure of Movie Web App

We will then delete all the files that are not necessary. The file structure after deleting the files is given below:

Screenshot-from-2023-10-16-10-29-20

Project structure for React Movie App

dependencies list after installing external libraries:

"dependencies": {
        "@testing-library/jest-dom": "^5.17.0",
        "@testing-library/react": "^13.4.0",
        "@testing-library/user-event": "^13.5.0",
        "axios": "^1.5.1",
        "react": "^18.2.0",
        "react-dom": "^18.2.0",
        "react-scripts": "5.0.1",
        "web-vitals": "^2.1.4"
}

Example: The example on searching a name gives the list of matching movies title and Display the details when clicked on an item in the list.

CSS

/* App.css */
* {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    box-sizing: border-box;
}

body {
    font-family: "montserrat", sans-serif;
    background: linear-gradient(to right, #000428, #004e92);
}

header {
    width: 100%;
    padding-top: 2rem;
    padding-bottom: 1rem;
}

header h1 {
    color: #ffffff;
    font-size: 4rem;
    font-weight: 700;
    text-align: center;
}

main {
    width: 100%;
    max-width: 90%;
    margin: 0 auto;
}

.container {
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: row;
    flex-wrap: wrap;
    justify-content: center;
}

.item {
    width: 20rem;
    text-align: left;
}

.results {
    display: flex;
    flex-wrap: wrap;
    justify-content: center;
    align-items: center;
    /* margin: 0 -15px; */
}

.results .result {
    width: 20%;
    min-width: 250px;
    background: #000000;
    max-height: 500px;
    /* padding: 15px; */
    margin: 20px 25px;
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;
    cursor: pointer;
}

.results .not-found {
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;
    justify-content: center;
    align-items: center;
    text-align: center;
    margin: 2rem 0.5rem;
}

.results .not-found h2 {
    color: #ffffff;
}

.results .result img {
    /* display: block; */
    width: 100%;
    padding: 10px 2px;
    margin: 0 auto;
    height: 350px;
    width: 230px;
}

.results .result h3 {
    color: #fff;
    font-size: 20px;
    font-weight: 600;
    width: 100%;
    text-align: center;
    padding: 1rem;
    background: #272829;
    flex: 1 100%;
    transition: 0.4s ease-out;
}

.result:hover {
    box-shadow: 0 0 8px 3px #eaf0f7;
    /* background: #dfd8d8; */
}

.results .result h3:hover {
    background: #fff;
    color: #223343;
    box-shadow: 0 0 8px 3px #4484c4;
}

.detail {
    margin: 3rem 5rem;
    overflow-y: scroll;
}

.detail .content .rating {
    margin-left: 2rem;
    font-size: 1.5rem;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    margin-top: 1rem;
    padding-bottom: 0;
}

.detail .content {
    display: block;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    position: fixed;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    max-width: 15000px;
    /* max-height: 600px; */
    padding: 25px;
    background: #000000;
    color: #fff;
    overflow-y: scroll;
}

.detail .content h2 {
    font-size: 3rem;
    padding: 2rem;
    padding-top: 0;
    padding-bottom: 0.5rem;
    font-weight: 600;
}

.detail .content span {
    font-size: 1.4rem;
    margin-left: 2rem;
    margin-bottom: 3rem;
    font-weight: 300;
    color: #ffffff;
}

.detail .content .rating {
    margin-bottom: 30px;
}

.detail .content .about {
    display: flex;
    flex-wrap: wrap;
    margin: 0 -15px 30px;
}

.detail .content .about img {
    flex: 1 1 50%;
    max-width: 300px;
    opacity: none;
    padding: 0 15px;
    margin-left: 2rem;
    margin-top: 1rem;
}

.detail .content .about p {
    flex: 1 50%;
    padding: 15px 25px;
    margin-top: 3rem;
    font-size: 1.5rem;
}

.detail .content .close {
    /* display: inline-block; */
    padding: 15px 30px;
    font-size: 18px;
    /* margin-top: 3rem;
  margin-right: 2rem;
  margin-bottom: 1rem; */
    font-weight: 700;
    background: #223343;
    color: #fff;
    /* border-radius: 8px; */
    border: none;
    outline: none;
    appearance: none;
    cursor: pointer;
    transition: 0.4s ease-out;

    width: 100%;
    display: flex;
    margin: auto;
    margin-top: 5rem;
    justify-content: center;
    align-items: center;
    border-radius: 5px;
}

.detail .content button:hover {
    background: #4484c4;
}

.detail .content .about .close:hover {
    background: #223343;
}

@media screen and (max-width: 1015px) {
    .results {
        justify-content: center;
        align-items: center;
    }

    .detail .content .close {
        width: 100%;
        display: flex;
        margin: auto;
        justify-content: center;
        align-items: center;
        border-radius: 5px;
    }
}

@media screen and (max-width: 683px) {
    .results {
        justify-content: center;
        align-items: center;
    }

    .results .result {
        margin: 10px;
        justify-content: center;
        align-items: center;
    }
}

@media screen and (max-width: 643px) {
    .results .result {
        margin: 15px;
    }
}

@media screen and (max-width: 638px) {
    .results .result {
        margin: 8px;
    }
}

@media screen and (max-width: 410px) {
    header h1 {
        font-size: 2.9rem;
    }

    .results {
        display: flex;
        flex-direction: column;
        justify-content: center;
        align-items: center;
    }

    .detail {
        overflow-y: scroll;
    }

    .detail .content .close {
        width: 100%;
        display: flex;
        margin: auto;
        justify-content: center;
        align-items: center;
        border-radius: 5px;
    }

    .detail .content span {
        margin-left: 0.5rem;
        font-style: italic;
        font-weight: bold;
    }

    .detail .content h2 {
        padding-left: 0.5rem;
        font-size: 2.1rem;
        margin-bottom: 0.5rem;
        font-weight: 100;
    }

    .detail .content .rating {
        margin-left: 0.5rem;
        font-weight: bold;
    }

    .detail .content .about img {
        margin-left: 0.5rem;
    }
}

CSS

/* Search.css */

.search-bar {
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center;
    align-items: center;
    margin: 1rem 0;
}

.search {
    width: 60%;
    display: block;
    padding: 15px;
    border: none;
    outline: none;
    background: none;
    background-color: #fff;
    border-radius: 8px;
    color: dimgrey;
    font-size: 20px;
    font-weight: 300;
    transition: 0.4s ease-out;
}

.search:focus {
    box-shadow: 0 0 8px 3px #4484c4;
}

@media screen and (max-width: 685px) {
    .search {
        width: 75%;
    }
}

@media screen and (max-width: 410px) {
    .search {
        width: 85%;
    }
}

JavaScript

import React, { useState } from "react";
import axios from "axios";
import Search from "./components/Search";
import Detail from "./components/Detail";
import "./App.css";

function App() {
    const [state, setState] = useState({
        s: "sherlock",
        results: [],
        selected: {},
    });

    const apiurl =
        "https://www.omdbapi.com/?apikey=a2526df0";

    const searchInput = (e) => {
        let s = e.target.value;

        setState((prevState) => {
            return { ...prevState, s: s };
        });
    };

    const search = (e) => {
        if (e.key === "Enter") {
            axios(apiurl + "&s=" + state.s).then(
                ({ data }) => {
                    let results = data.Search;

                    console.log(results);

                    setState((prevState) => {
                        return {
                            ...prevState,
                            results: results,
                        };
                    });
                }
            );
        }
    };

    const openDetail = (id) => {
        axios(apiurl + "&i=" + id).then(({ data }) => {
            let result = data;

            setState((prevState) => {
                return { ...prevState, selected: result };
            });
        });
    };

    const closeDetail = () => {
        setState((prevState) => {
            return { ...prevState, selected: {} };
        });
    };

    return (
        <div className="App">
            <header className="App-header">
                <h1>Movie Mania</h1>
            </header>
            <main>
                <Search
                    searchInput={searchInput}
                    search={search}
                />

                <div className="container">
                    {state.results.map((e) => (
                        <div
                            className="item"
                            onClick={() =>
                                openDetail(e.imdbID)
                            }
                        >
                            <img
                                style={{ width: "200px" }}
                                src={e.Poster}
                            />
                            <h3 style={{ color: "white" }}>
                                {e.Title}
                            </h3>
                        </div>
                    ))}
                </div>

                {typeof state.selected.Title !=
                "undefined" ? (
                    <Detail
                        selected={state.selected}
                        closeDetail={closeDetail}
                    />
                ) : (
                    false
                )}
            </main>
        </div>
    );
}

export default App;

JavaScript

// Filename - components/Detail.js

import React from "react";

function Detail({ selected, closeDetail }) {
    return (
        <section className="detail">
            <div className="content">
                <h2>{selected.Title}</h2>
                <span>{selected.Year}</span>
                <p className="rating">
                    Rating: {selected.imdbRating}
                </p>

                <div className="about">
                    <img src={selected.Poster} alt="" />

                    <p>{selected.Plot}</p>
                </div>
                <button
                    className="close"
                    onClick={closeDetail}
                >
                    Close
                </button>
            </div>
        </section>
    );
}

export default Detail;

JavaScript

// Filename - Search.js 

import React from "react";
import "./Search.css";

function Search({ searchInput, search }) {
    return (
        <div className="search-bar">
            <input
                type="text"
                placeholder="Search for a Movie..."
                className="search"
                onChange={searchInput}
                onKeyPress={search}
            />
        </div>
    );
}

export default Search;

Steps to Run the application: We can run this application by using the following command. This will start React’s development server that can be used for debugging our application.

npm run start

Output: You will see the following output on your browser screen on http://localhost:3000/.

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