BingeCinema Movie Discovery & Streaming Platform
BingeCinema is a sleek, responsive movie discovery platform built to make exploring films and TV shows effortless and visually immersive. It integrates with the TMDB API to deliver real-time data — from trending titles to trailers and showcases modern front-end engineering and design thinking.
🧠 Overview
Developed using React, Vite, TypeScript, and TailwindCSS, BingeCinema combines performance, interactivity, and scalability. The app enables users to browse, search, and discover movies with smooth navigation, live previews, and intelligent data handling.
🚀 Key Achievements
⚡ Data & API Integration
Connected with the TMDB API to fetch movies, genres, and trailers in real time.
Created a modular service layer (tmdb.ts) with caching and error handling for reliability.
🔐 Authentication
Integrated Firebase Authentication for email and password login.
Built the structure for user personalization features (favorites, watchlists, recommendations).
🎨 User Interface & Experience
Built a modern, minimalist interface using React + TailwindCSS.
Implemented reusable components for movie lists, details, search, and pagination.
Responsive design with a dynamic navbar, carousels, and subtle hover animations.
🧩 State & Code Quality
Managed state with React hooks and modularized reusable logic.
Used TypeScript for type safety, ESLint + Prettier for code consistency.
🧪 Testing & CI/CD
Added Vitest and React Testing Library for component and logic testing.
Configured GitHub Actions for CI running linting, tests, and automated builds.
Continuous deployment on Render, with production auto-deployments from GitHub.
✨ Design & UX
Designed wireframes in Figma before implementation.
Added smooth transitions, lazy loading, and skeleton loaders for a polished feel.
Future plans include Framer Motion animations and AI-powered recommendations.
⚙️ Performance Optimization
Implemented lazy loading for images and memoization for repeated renders.
Optimized builds using Vite’s tree-shaking and code-splitting.
Cached frequent API responses to reduce load times.
🧱 Deployment & Infrastructure
Hosted on Render with auto-deploys from GitHub. Includes a Dockerfile for containerized deployment on any platform.
docker build -t binge-cinema .
docker run -p 3000:80 binge-cinema
💡 Outcome
BingeCinema redefines movie discovery with speed, beauty, and intelligence. It stands as a showcase of:
API-driven app design
Scalable front-end architecture
Continuous integration and deployment
A foundation for personalization and future recommendation systems