coding adventures

Cataloging my vast movie hoard

2022 summer my movie collection is simply too large and I didn't want to buy the same movies over and over again. I might as well use Nest Js to learn to search up movies that I own that I've put inside of a database. Alas, here we go.

NestJS is a framework that lets me build a backend service to save movies to a database. NestJS allows you to use different databases via TypeORM. I am using a simple database called SQLite3 to get things started. This is all new to me so I'll be learning as I go. The editor I'm choosing to use is Visual Studio Code. I installed plugins such as Prettier which helped format and organize my code. It's a free editor that works well with the terminal and I am already familiar with it.

Installing Software Packages

NestJS

I had to install NestJS which is a software that created a template set of files for me to use. I also had to install npm to download libraries that would automate a lot of tasks.

I used an application called Postman to test my code. It provides an interface to interact with the web as needed using gets, posts, patches, and other html verbage.

I have two main files. A controller and a service file. The controller is the declarations for all my functions, and the service is the implementation for it all.

Svelte

Svelte is a software that works to make designing the front end easier.