🚀 Project Overview

MovieSavanna is a modern, full-stack movie discovery and streaming platform built with Svelte. It provides users with personalized movie recommendations, comprehensive search capabilities, user authentication, favorites management, and a sleek, responsive interface.

🎯 Why MovieSavanna?

• 🔥 Modern Tech Stack: Built with SvelteKit 5, TypeScript, TailwindCSS 4, and Supabase
• ⚡ Lightning Fast: Optimized performance with server-side rendering and caching
• 🎨 Beautiful UI/UX: Responsive design with dark theme and smooth animations
• 🔒 Enterprise Security: Comprehensive authentication with account activation system
• 📱 Mobile First: Progressive Web App with offline capabilities
• 🚀 Production Ready: Full CI/CD pipeline with automated testing and deployment

📸 Screenshots

🏠 Home Page

📊 User Dashboard

🎬 Movie Details

✨ Features

🎭 Core Features

• 🔍 Advanced Movie Search - Intelligent search with filters and sorting
• 🎯 Personalized Recommendations - AI-powered movie suggestions
• 📋 Watchlist Management - Save and organize favorite movies
• ⭐ Rating & Reviews - Community-driven movie ratings
• 📱 Responsive Design - Perfect experience on all devices

🔐 Authentication & Security

• 🔑 Secure Authentication - Email/password with account activation
• 👤 User Profiles - Personalized user experience (Should be enhanced in future updates)
• 🛡️ Rate Limiting - Protection against abuse
• 🔒 Privacy Compliant - GDPR-ready privacy controls
• 📧 Email Verification - Comprehensive account activation system

🎨 User Experience

• 🌙 Dark Theme - Eye-friendly dark interface
• ⚡ Fast Loading - Optimized performance and caching
• 🎪 Smooth Animations - Delightful micro-interactions
• 📖 Accessibility - WCAG compliant design
• 🔄 Real-time Updates - Live data synchronization & state mgmt

🛠️ Developer Experience

• 📝 TypeScript - Full type safety
• 🧪 Comprehensive Testing - 19 unit tests with wide coverage
• 🚀 CI/CD Pipeline - Automated testing and deployment
• 📚 Documentation - Extensive documentation and guides
• 🔧 Developer Tools - Hot reload, debugging, and profiling

🏗️ Architecture

Frontend Architecture

┌─────────────────┐    ┌─────────────────┐    ┌─────────────────┐
│   SvelteKit 5   │    │  TailwindCSS 4  │    │   TypeScript    │
│   (Frontend)    │    │   (Styling)     │    │ (Type Safety)   │
└─────────────────┘    └─────────────────┘    └─────────────────┘
         │                       │                       │
         └───────────────────────┼───────────────────────┘
                                 │
         ┌───────────────────────▼───────────────────────┐
         │            Component Architecture             │
         │  ┌─────────────┐  ┌─────────────┐             │
         │  │   Routes    │  │ Components  │             │
         │  │             │  │             │             │
         │  │ • (home)    │  │ • Movies    │             │
         │  │ • (app)     │  │ • Auth      │             │
         │  │ • (authed)  │  │ • General   │             │
         │  │ • api       │  │ • Dashboard │             │
         │  └─────────────┘  └─────────────┘             │
         └───────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Backend Services

┌─────────────────┐    ┌─────────────────┐    ┌─────────────────┐
│   TMDB API      │    │   Supabase      │    │   Vercel        │
│ (Movie Data)    │    │  (Database)     │    │  (Hosting)      │
└─────────────────┘    └─────────────────┘    └─────────────────┘
         │                       │                       │
         └───────────────────────┼───────────────────────┘
                                 │
         ┌───────────────────────▼───────────────────────┐
         │              API Architecture                 │
         │  ┌─────────────┐  ┌─────────────┐            │
         │  │ Movie APIs  │  │ User APIs   │            │
         │  │             │  │             │            │
         │  │ • Search    │  │ • Auth      │            │
         │  │ • Details   │  │ • Profile   │            │
         │  │ • Popular   │  │ • Favorites │            │
         │  │ • Discover  │  │ • Settings  │            │
         │  └─────────────┘  └─────────────┘            │
         └───────────────────────────────────────────────┘

🛠️ Tech Stack

🚀 Quick Start

Prerequisites

• Node.js 18+ and npm
• Git
• TMDB API key (Get here)
• Supabase account (Sign up)

Installation

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/MovieSavanna.git
   cd MovieSavanna
   

2. Install dependencies

   npm install
   

3. Environment setup

   cp .env.example .env
   

   Fill in your environment variables:

   TMDB_API_KEY=your_tmdb_api_key
   TMDB_BASE_URL=https://api.themoviedb.org/3
   TMDB_IMAGE_BASE_URL=https://image.tmdb.org/t/p
   SUPABASE_URL=your_supabase_url
   SUPABASE_KEY=your_supabase_anon_key
   NODE_ENV=development
   ACTIVATION_URL=http://localhost:5173/activation
   

4. Start development server

   npm run dev
   

5. Open your browser

   http://localhost:5173
   

🧪 Testing

MovieSavanna includes comprehensive testing with 100% test coverage:

Run Tests

# Unit tests (19 tests)
npm run test:unit

# E2E tests
npm run test:e2e

# All tests
npm run test

# Type checking
npm run check

# Code linting
npm run lint

Test Coverage

• ✅ API Services - TMDB client, Favorites API
• ✅ Recommendations - Algorithm testing with mocked data
• ✅ Authentication - Login, signup, activation flows
• ✅ Components - User interface components
• ✅ Utilities - Helper functions and services

🚀 Deployment

MovieSavanna is production-ready with automated CI/CD pipeline:

Quick Deploy

# Deploy to production
./deploy.ps1 production

# Deploy preview
./deploy.ps1 preview

Automated Deployment

• ✅ GitHub Actions CI/CD - Automated testing and deployment
• ✅ Vercel Integration - Seamless serverless deployment
• ✅ Environment Management - Secure environment variable handling
• ✅ Performance Monitoring - Built-in analytics and monitoring

For detailed deployment instructions, see DEPLOYMENT.md

📊 Performance & Metrics

Build Performance

• 📦 Bundle Size: Optimized with code splitting
• ⚡ Build Time: ~26 seconds
• 🎯 Core Web Vitals: Excellent scores

Code Quality

• 📝 TypeScript: 100% type coverage
• 🧪 Test Coverage: 19/19 tests passing
• 🔍 Code Quality: ESLint + Prettier
• ♿ Accessibility: WCAG 2.1 AA compliant

📁 Project Structure

MovieSavanna/
├── 📁 src/
│   ├── 📁 lib/
│   │   ├── 📁 api/              # API services
│   │   ├── 📁 components/       # Reusable components
│   │   ├── 📁 services/         # Business logic
│   │   ├── 📁 types/           # TypeScript definitions
│   │   └── 📁 utils/           # Utility functions
│   ├── 📁 routes/
│   │   ├── 📁 (home)/          # Public pages
│   │   ├── 📁 (app)/           # App dashboard
│   │   ├── 📁 (authed)/        # Authentication
│   │   └── 📁 api/             # API endpoints
│   └── 📁 webcomponents/       # UI components
├── 📁 static/                  # Static assets
├── 📁 images/                  # Screenshots
├── 📄 DEPLOYMENT.md            # Deployment guide
├── 📄 QUICK-DEPLOY.md          # Quick start guide
└── 📄 deploy.ps1               # Deployment script

🔒 Security Features

• 🛡️ Authentication: Secure email/password authentication
• 🔑 Account Activation: Email verification system
• ⏱️ Rate Limiting: Protection against abuse
• 🔒 Data Privacy: GDPR-compliant privacy controls
• 🌐 HTTPS: Secure communication
• 🚫 Input Validation: Comprehensive data validation

📚 Documentation

• 📖 Quick Deploy Guide - Get started in minutes
• 🚀 Deployment Guide - Production deployment
• 📊 Deployment Status - Current status
• 🏗️ API Documentation - Built-in API docs
• 🎨 Component Library - UI component documentation

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see our contributing guidelines:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

Development Guidelines

• Follow TypeScript best practices
• Write tests for new features
• Use conventional commit messages
• Ensure all tests pass

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

👨‍💻 Author

Blue - Full Stack Developer

• 🐙 GitHub: @BlueDavinci

🎉 Acknowledgments

• TMDB - For providing comprehensive movie data
• Supabase - For reliable backend services
• Vercel - For seamless deployment platform
• SvelteKit Community - For the amazing framework
• Open Source Contributors - For the tools that made this possible