Movie Explorer is a full-stack movie browsing platform that provides a smooth and responsive experience for discovering movies, series, and episodes.

Users can:

• 🔎 Search movies by title
• 🎬 View full movie details
• ⭐ Check ratings (IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic)
• 📱 Use on any device (fully responsive)
• ⚡ Enjoy fast performance through smart caching
• 💾 Automatically restore the last search

The backend is developed with Spring Boot and provides a clean REST API layer between the frontend and the OMDB API.

• 🛰 RESTful endpoints for search & movie details
• 🔐 Secure API key handling using environment variables
• ⚡ In-memory caching
  • Cache expiry
  • Max size limit
• 🚀 Fast HTTP client using RestTemplate
• 🧹 Error handling (invalid title, no results, API failure)
• 🏗 Extensible architecture for future expansion

GET /api/movies/search?title=Iron Man

GET /api/movies/details?id=tt0371746

Built using React + Vite with clean, modern, responsive design.

• 🔎 Search dashboard with instant results
• 🎞 Grid layout of movies (poster, title, year, type)
• 🎬 Detailed movie page
  • Poster
  • Director
  • Genre
  • Plot
  • Actors
  • Ratings list
• 💾 Last search auto-restored (localStorage)
• 🟦 Beautiful movie cards (9:16 poster ratio)
• 🧩 Easy navigation with React Router
• 📱 Fully responsive for all devices
• 🎨 Polished UI for production use

git clone https://github.com/mulayharshal/Movie-Explorer.git
cd movie-explorer

cd frontend-movie-explorer
npm install
npm run dev

Runs at:

http://localhost:5173/

Create .env:

VITE_API_URL=http://localhost:8080/api
VITE_WEBSITE_NAME=Movie Explorer

cd backend-movie-explorer
mvn spring-boot:run

Set your API key:

OMDB_API_KEY=your_api_key_here

Backend runs at:

http://localhost:8080

👨‍💻 Developer
Harshal Mulay
📍 India
🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/mulayharshal