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Movie Search
Discover and stream your favorite movies - all in one place!
Movie Search is a full-stack web app for browsing and streaming movies.
It’s built with React.js and Go and uses Terraform for infrastructure provisioning.
You can find the live version here!
Source code is available on GitHub.
This project was originally built as an example full-stack service for the Technical Skills for Product Managers course.
Features
Frontend (React.js, Tailwind CSS, Vite)
- Responsive UI built with React.js and Tailwind CSS
- Client-side routing using React Router
- Browse a list of movies
- View detailed movie information
- Search movies by title or genre
- Like/unlike movies and view your liked list
- Fully responsive layout optimized for all screen sizes
- Tested with Jest and Testing Library
Backend (Go)
- RESTful API built with Go and the Chi router
- Supports CRUD operations for movies, users, and likes
- Authentication via OAuth and passwords using Goth and Gorilla Sessions
- Data persistence in PostgreSQL using pgx, with SQL migrations via golang-migrate
- Caching with Redis using go-redis
- Structured logging via Go’s built-in slog package
- Monitoring and metrics collection using Alloy and Prometheus
- Fetches movie posters from TMDB and trailers from YouTube
DevOps & Infrastructure (Terraform + AWS)
- Dockerized for local development and testing
- CI/CD powered by GitHub Actions and Vercel
- Infrastructure provisioned via Terraform, including:
- ECS (Fargate) for container orchestration
- Application Load Balancer (ALB) with custom routing
- PostgreSQL (RDS) and Redis (ElastiCache) provisioning
- VPC, subnets, NAT gateways, and route tables
- IAM roles, security groups, and policies
- Observability and alerting with Grafana