MyMovieStash

I built MyMovieStash for a couple of reasons.

The first reason is that I have a home theater system that I love watching movies on. I have a collection of 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray movies that fully utilize the audio and video capabilities of my home theater system for a theater-like experience. I wanted to be able to catalog the movies I have and log when I added them to my collection and when I watched them. I also wanted to be able to easily share my MovieStash with family and friends to figure out what movie to watch for a movie night.

The second reason is that I also wanted to learn how to design and build a web application, from the front-end, to the back-end, and the infrastructure.

• Create your own MyMovieStash account to catalog your movie collection
• Search for a movie by movie title
• Select which format(s) you own of a selected movie
• For each format, log when you added a movie to your MovieStash and when you watched it
• Add the movie to your MovieStash
• View your MovieStash, with filtering and sort by
• Share your MovieStash, with or without applied filtering and sort by

Front-end

• Bootstrap v5
• Custom CSS/SCSS
• Native JavaScript
• npm and Rollup.js to manage client-side assets

Back-end

• Server-side rendered pages using ASP.NET Core 6 MVC
• C#
• EF Core, EF Core migrations, and LINQ
• ASP.NET Core Identity for user authentication
• Azure SQL Database for data store

Infrastructure

• Azure App Service for hosting
• Cloudflare for DNS records management
• Azure Key Vault for secrets management
• Azure Cognitive Search for searching by movie title
• Azure Data Factory for running ETL pipeline, using Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 for staging data, and loading transformed data using stored procedures
• Azure Active Directory authentication and Azure role-based access control authorization
• Azure DevOps Services for hosting git repo
• Azure Pipelines for CICD, using dockerized self-hosted agent to run jobs
• Mailgun for transactional emails, MJML for templating

• Reduce infrastructure costs
• Setup staging environment
• Create testing suite
• New feature: movie rating system
• New feature: barcode scanner