yflooi/movierecommender

Suggest movies by calculating a match score based on the weight of user-selected criteria. Criteria include Metacritic score, IMDB rating, and importance of director, lead star, and supporting stars. Results are displayed in sortable table.

AMovie Recommender

Suggest movies by calculating a match score based on the weight of user-selected criteria. Criteria include Metacritic score, IMDB rating, and importance of director, lead star, and supporting stars. Results are displayed in sortable table.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

(Version numbers were at time of deployment in 2018)
For runtime environment:

• nodejs: v8.10.0
• npm v5.6.0

Dependencies:

• body-parser: 1.18.3
• express: 4.16.3
• jquery: 3.3.1
• sqlite3: 4.0.2

Installing

1. Clone this repo at https://github.com/YFLooi/movieRecommender.git
2. Install all dependencies using 'npm install'
3. Start this project using 'npm start'. The message 'Server stated at http://localhost:3000/' should appear in the console
4. Open a browser, navigate to http://localhost:3000/

Deployment

SQLite has limited web hosting options. Microsoft Azure is the most accessible of them. Follow this guide by sanathjs: https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1133660/Deploy-Node-js-in-Microsoft-Azure

Authors

Looi Yih Foo (https://github.com/YFLooi/)