🎬 Movie Store API

A complete RESTful Movie Store API built with Node.js, Express, and MongoDB (Mongoose). This API allows clients to perform CRUD operations and advanced queries such as filtering, searching, sorting, and pagination on movie data.

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🚀 Features

• Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) for movies
• Search movies by title
• Filter movies by:
  • Title
  • Rating
• Sort results by any field
• Pagination support (page and limit)
• RESTful API structure

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🛠️ Tech Stack

• Node.js
• Express.js
• MongoDB
• Mongoose

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📂 Project Structure

movie-store-api/
│
├── models/
│   └── Movie.js
│
├── routes/
│   └── movies.js
│
├── controllers/
│   └── movieController.js
│
├── config/
│   └── db.js
│
├── .env
├── server.js
└── package.json

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📦 Installation

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/your-username/movie-store-api.git
cd movie-store-api

2. Install dependencies

npm install

3. Setup environment variables

Create a .env file in the root with:

PORT=5000
MONGO_URI=your_mongodb_connection_string

4. Run the server

npm run dev

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🛣️ API Endpoints

Method	Endpoint	Description
GET	/movies	Get all movies (with filters)
GET	/movies/:id	Get movie by ID
POST	/movies	Add a new movie
PUT	/movies/:id	Update a movie
DELETE	/movies/:id	Delete a movie

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🔍 Query Parameters

• q: search by movie title (e.g. ?q=dho)
• title: exact match by title
• rating: filter by rating
• sortBy: sort by field (e.g. ?sortBy=rating)
• page: page number for pagination
• limit: number of results per page

Example

GET /movies?q=dho&rating=8&sortBy=title&page=1&limit=10

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🧪 Future Improvements

• Authentication with JWT
• Genre/category support
• User ratings and reviews
• Upload poster image

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📄 License

MIT © [Niket_sahu]