Movie Rater Web Service

This is a web service that stores movie ratings by categories for users. It is meant to be used in conjunction with the movie rater web project. It is hard-coded to port 3000. I would obviously not do this on a production application

Technologies Used

• NodeJS - NodeJS (specifically the ts-node variant) was used for this project. I chose node because the of the quick time to develop an application. In my opinion, the biggest downside of nodeJS is efficiency. That isn't an issue for the operations I was doing
• Typescript - I feel the advantages of typescript cannot be understated. The type safety alone leads to a considerable amount of less bugs than vanillaJS. Additionally, the annotation system allows some pretty cool stuff that wouldn't be nearly as easy otherwise
• TypeOrm - I found this framework that is a typed ORM for javascript. While I have mixed feelings about both ORMs and random javascript libraries in production, I was delighted to play with it for a side project. The framework acts a lot like hibernate, and allowed me to write my backend in a very short amount of time.
• Sqlite - In memory databases are awesome for these types of projects, and Sqlite is Ol' Faithful in this regard.
• Express - Anyone that has used node is at least aware of express for routing. While I have always wanted to try RESTeasy as an alternative, I chose to stick with what I already knew
• Routing-Controllers - I found this framework that uses typescript annotations to allow multiple routing files that feed into express. I usually work in Java, so those annotations felt great to me.

To Install

Run npm ci This will download files according to my package-lock.json At that point you can run either of the two commands:

npm run start
npm run serve

The first will launch ts-node, while the second will launch a similar runtime that will watch for file changes.

Disclaimer

This was a small project I finished in a weekend. It is missing a lot of stuff I would consider essential in a production level application. This includes:

• ANY TESTING
• Authentication
• Any sort of analytics

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me