mthorry / tv-lineup-app

"My Lineup" has a Ruby on Rails backend with React/Redux frontend. Users can save their favorite shows and add episodes to their lineup. They can view their lineup in a calendar format to see when and where their tv shows air. Users can also see trending and most watched shows as well as shows premiering that week.

My Lineup App 📺

Ruby on Rails backend with React/Redux frontend. Users can save their favorite shows and add episodes to their lineup. They can view their lineup in a calendar format to see when and where their tv shows air. Users can also see trending and most watched shows as well as shows premiering that week. This project was created independently by me, Matthew Thorry, as my final app at Flatiron School for their Software Engineering Immersive Program.

Backend

I created the backend of my app using Ruby on Rails. I used two different APIs in order to get the TV data: trakt.tv API and TVmaze API and fetch requests are done from the backend. The models are User, Show, Episode, UserShow, UserEpisode. A User can have many shows, and many episodes through shows. They can also have many user_shows and user_episodes (for ratings, etc). All models required a controller as CRUD actions are available to all models.

Frontend

The frontend was created using React and Redux. It has over two dozen components with four reducers (shows, episodes, search, extras) which represent the four main containers of the app.

Shows

Responsible for fetching and displaying show information from the APIs and backend. The Show Redux state includes myShows (user's saved shows), onTonight (shows on today from API), premieres (shows premiering this week from API), and isFetching (boolean). The main Containers for shows are ShowContainer, PremieresContainer and ShowCalendar.

ShowContainer's children are ShowList and ShowItem (grandchild); other children are ShowPage with sibling SuggestedList.

PremieresContainer and ShowCalendar do not have children but are containers because they are responsible for multiple tasks including fetching shows or episodes and adding/removing a user's saved items.

Episodes

Responsible for fetching and displaying episode information from the APIs and backend. The Episode Redux state includes myLineup (user's saved episodes), showEpisodes (episodes for a specific show, pulled from TVmaze API), and isFetching (boolean). There is one container, EpisodeContainer. EpisodeContainer's children are EpisodeList and EpisodeItem (grandchild).

Users can view episodes and add specific episodes to their lineup from EpisodeItem.

Search

Responsible for fetching and displaying show information from the TVmaze API based on user input. The Search Redux state includes results (results of search) and isFetching (boolean). The container is SearchContainer which has a child (SearchResults) and a grandchild (SearchItem).

Users can save shows from the SearchResults via a button on the SearchItem.

Extras

Responsible for fetching and displaying extra information from the trakt.tv API. The Extras Redux state includes trending (episodes who's popularity has changed in last day), watching (shows that have most viewers), ratings (array of user's user_shows which include rating) and isFetching (boolean). Extras includes three containers: DashboardContainer, TrendingContainer and MostWatchedContainer.

DashboardContainer manages the landing page after login. It has two children, DashboardLineupList and DashboardOnTonightList, which each have a child, DashboardLineupItem and DashboardOnTonightItem. DashboardLineupList displays the episodes in a user's lineup that air on the current day. DashboardOnTonightList displays episodes that are not on a user's lineup but air today and are highly rated.

TrendingContainer calls the trakt.tv API to get latest trending shows and is the parent of TrendingItem which displays each result of the query.

MostWatchedContainer calls the trakt.tv API to get most watched shows and is the parent of MostWatchedItem which displays each result of the query. A user can also filter results based on specified times (week, month, year, ever).

Acknowledgements

My classmates at Flatiron School are always the best and most helpful, so thank you! Also thank you to my instructors Johann Kerr, Lindsey Wells and Andrew Cohn for always being an amazing second set of eyes for my work.