MovieGenie

This is the code base for backend server for the project MovieGenie

Required applications

• Docker is a set of platform as a service product that uses OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers. Containers are isolated from one another and bundle their own software, libraries and configuration files; they can communicate with each other through well-defined channels.
• Node.js is a platform built on Chrome’s JavaScript runtime for easily building fast and scalable network applications. Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform runtime environment for developing server-side and networking applications.

Run the MySQL server

1. Install Docker (Learn more about docker installation here)
2. Enter on the project root directory
3. Run the docker docker-compose up -d

• Access phpmyadmin

your_ip:8183 Server: mysql Username: root/root Password: root/pass

• Access mysql on terminal(if needed)

docker exec -it mysql_server mysql -u root -p

Running Nodejs server

1. Install Nodejs (Download installer from here)

2. RUN : npm install

3. Now let’s run the app by running the following command : node server.js.

Node.js Rest CRUD API overview

We will build Rest Apis that can create, retrieve, update, delete and find users and movies by user_id.

The following table shows overview of the Rest APIs that will be exported

Run the below from postman by using

You will get an AuthToken when you login. Use the token in header of api call as {Authorization: AuthToken} for authorization.

Methods	Urls	Actions	body
POST	/signup	Signup a new user	{ user_id: "test_user1", password: "test_pass1", age: 20, gender: "Male", country: "Netherlands" }
POST	/login	Login using username and password	{ user_id: "test_user1", password: "test_pass1" }
GET	/users/id/{user_id}	Get the user details
PUT	/users/id/{user_id}	Update user details by id	{password: "new_password"}
GET	/users/	Get all user details
DELETE	/users/id/{user_id}	Delete the user by user_id

Tips:

After testing you can stop docker by docker stop mysql_server phpmyadmin Confirm no container is running by docker ps -a