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A minimal web-app for storing the film watchlists

Created with : Fastify, Next.js, Mantine, TypeScript, Postgres, and Prisma

Getting Started

Create the .env files

for api/.env:

DATABASE_URL=postgres://user:password@localhost:5432/database # or whatever your database connection string is

for web/.env:

NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL=http://localhost:3100 # or whatever the URL ur api is located at

Run the following commands

NOTE: This project uses NPM Workspaces, so you need to run the following commands in the root directory of the project.

• npm install at the root of repository
• use npm run dev -w web to start the nextjs frontend dev server
• For REST API server,
  • Make sure you had set the DATABASE_URL in the api/.env file
  • npm run generate -w api to generate the types based on api/prisma/schema.prisma
  • if you are using a new empty database, then npx prisma migrate dev -n create to create the tables in your database
  • use npm run dev -w api to start the fastify backend dev server

Deploying the project

Currently, Only Supports for direct deploy to Vercel.

• frontend, make sure to set the Root directory to the /web and the env for pointing to your api as shown in the above steps.
• REST API, similarly make sure to set the Root directory to the /api and the script npm run vercel-build is used for building the project.

Why ??

I just need a simple way to store the film watchlists. I currently maintain a text file to store the film watchlists which is OK for me till now, but to share it others and to make it more accessible, This does the job. That's a reason why the film names aren't autocompleted while typing.