Notflix

A react based emulation of Netflix aimed at displaying the home page of Netflix, it allows users basic firebase authentication and also displays trending movies and shows based off a movie api, it also allows for dynamic cards that grant the user further information if needed

Purpose and Direction

Notflix was intended as a personal challenge to attempt and emulate advanced UI, thus netflix was chosen, the project consists of a simple login and registration system and aims to emulate the process of navigating the home page of the netflix website

Stack Explanation

Since Notflix was chosen to include simple login systems, firebase was chosen as it was very easy to implement a simple login system, as well as this react was chosen to allow for scalability and reusability since netflix has a lot of dynamic components that are very similar i.e the home page cards

Issues and Lessons Learnt

One of the biggest issues was dealing with api keys, since the api i used required a key, this meant that hardcoding the key into my code would make the key extremely vulnerable so in order to combat this, i searched around online and discovered that react supported env variables so after reading up on react documentation i was able to create a process.env file and secured the api key that way.