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CinChat

CinChat is a chatbot website that helps users find movies they want to watch.

Motivation

The project was created for Boston University’s CS591 course in the Summer 1 semester. This project aims to build the website using the MEAN stack, using Typescript. This project also looks to act as a learning opportunity for various APIs and technologies.

Build status

Finished for CS591 (June 2018).

Code style

Tech/framework used

MEAN Stack

APIs

Features

Chat with bot to ask it about movie information. It can also recommend a movie based on the current weather.

Commands to try:
- “Tell me about Star Wars”
  - “ Show me more”
- “Give me a movie based on the weather in Boston”
- “Show me romance movies”
- “Show me popular movies”
- “Who directed that?”
- “When was that released?”
- “Show me the plot”

Screenshots

Setup Project

Install Dependencies:

  git clone https://github.com/antpas/CinChat.git
  npm install

MongoDB
- https://www.mongodb.com/download-center

How to use?

Go to https://cinchat.herokuapp.com/.
Use CinChat and provide feedback on this repo.
(Give it a minute to load, Heroku Free is being used)

Grading Criteria

MongoDB (Mongoose used)
- User Table: User credential information.
- Movie Table: Movie history information.
- Node & Express
  - No external APIs are called on the front end.
  - Split up routes into files.
5 external APIs used.
Angular6 used.
- Calls backend routes via http.
- Multiple components
OAuth is used for authentication (Google) via Passport.
- Local authentication is also implemented using JWTs.
This project has been deployed on Heroku.
- This allows for users to easily try it out!
- All APIs keys are loaded into backend using enviroment variables.
  - Used dotenv for loading env variables.

Credits

Developed by Anthony Pasquariello.
Boston University CS591 Summer 2018.