Richard Harrington's Team

Answering the question: "What do you want to watch tonight?" Movie MeetUp helps groups decide upon a movie they would all like to watch, using a ranked-choice voting algorithm. Get started today by creating an event and selecting your movies. Then invite people to rank the movies they would most like to see!

Team:
Mike Gilson
Kristin Jue

Mentor:
Richard Harrington (Sr. Manager at T-Mobile)

Find the slides for our final demo at: https://bit.ly/3zhMfBt

CodeDay Labs team in the advanced track. Both teammates are in the Bachelor of Application Development program at North Seattle College. The tech stack was completely new to both Kristin and Mike.

Additional tools and APIs:
-IMDb-API.com
-AWS
-Angular Material

New Tools and Technologies:

Frontend:
-Angular, TypeScript, Angular Material, SASS/SCSS
Backend:
-(AWS) IAM, Cognito, API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudTrail
Deployment:
-(AWS) CloudFront, S3, Route 53,
-(Google) Domains,
-(Github) Actions

Lessons Learned:
-API Call Frequency Mitigation
-AWS CloudTrail - awareness and deletion, when needed
-CORS issues
-Testing in AWS Console vs testing in the project
-AWS CloudFront caching
-Authorization elements
-Lazy Loading of image URLs
-Asynchronous calls in Angular