Overview

CineVerse is a concept application for a social network service for movies, inspired by Letterboxd.

NOTE: This project is only for learning purposes, therefore, it is not perfect.

This project was developed using WinForms (.NET 8). We used the TMDB API to collect 100 movies, along with cast and crew data for each movie. We also used the Entity Framework (EF) Core ORM and PostgreSQL database for the backend.

Screenshots

Features

• Users
  • Authentication (sign in, sign up, reset password via verification code sent through email)
  • Profile customization (change info, display favorite movies, etc.)
  • Follow or unfollow other users
• Movies
  • Browse (search, filter, sort, and view details)
  • Like, rate, review
  • Add to watchlist, custom lists
• Discussions
  • Create post
  • Reply to post and and other comments
  • Upvote or downvote a post or comment

Technical details

• N-tier architecture
  • Application layer (Core)
  • Business logic layer (Services)
  • Data access layer (Data)
• Design patterns
  • Singleton (e.g., each of the services are implemented as a singleton)
  • Publisher/subscriber (our EventManger singleton manages all of the custom events and their handlers in the application)
  • Unit of work and repositories

Run this project

Project setup

Clone this project to your local machine:

git clone https://github.com/maqnitude/CineVerse.git

And open the solution in Visual Studio.

You will also need to setup your local database. In Visual Studio, add an application configuration file (App.config) to the project. Here's an example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <configSections>
    <section name="emailSettings" type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler, System, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
  </configSections>
  <connectionStrings>
    <add name="DefaultConnection" connectionString="<your database connection string>"/>
  </connectionStrings>
  <emailSettings>
    <add key="Email" value="<email used to sending the verification code>"/>
    <add key="AppPassword" value="<your app password for the email address>"/>
  </emailSettings>
</configuration>

Seed database

The collected data can be found at this link, place the folder data inside the folder Data in the project and run

dotnet ef migrations add InitialCreate
dotnet ef database update

Make sure all the all the necessary packages (Entity Framework Core, etc.) are installed. Finally, build and run the project.