online-movie-ticket-booking

Movie Ticket Booking App 🎬🍿

Build and Deploy a Full-Stack Movie Ticket Booking App — a complete MERN-style project that lets users sign up, browse movies, choose seats, and book tickets.

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Table of contents

• Demo
• Features
• Tech stack
• Folder structure
• Getting started (local)
• Environment variables
• Database & seed data
• API overview
• Testing
• Deployment
• Contributing
• License & credits

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Demo

Live demo and deployment instructions available in the video tutorial (link in repo or video description). :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}

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Features

• User authentication (signup / login)
• Browse movies and movie details
• Select showtimes and choose specific seats from a seat-map
• Add tickets to cart and complete booking flow
• User bookings history / ticket retrieval
• Admin panel (optional) to add/update movies and showtimes
• Payment integration placeholder (Stripe / mock)
  These are typical features shown in the referenced tutorial. :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2}

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Tech stack

• Frontend: React (Create React App / Vite / Next.js — choose based on tutorial’s repo)
• Backend: Node.js + Express
• Database: MongoDB (Mongoose) or another NoSQL DB
• Authentication: JWT or session-based auth
• Payment: Stripe (or mock payment flow)
• Dev / Tools: Git, npm / yarn, Postman (for API testing)

The tutorial demonstrates a MERN-style full stack build and deploy workflow. :contentReference[oaicite:3]{index=3}

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Folder structure (suggested)

Folder Structure

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movie-ticket-app/ ├── client/ # React frontend │ ├── public/ │ └── src/ │ ├── components/ # Reusable UI components │ ├── pages/ # Page-level components │ ├── hooks/ # Custom hooks │ ├── services/ # API calls │ ├── context/ # App-wide state │ └── App.jsx
│ ├── server/ # Backend (Node + Express) │ ├── controllers/ # Route controllers (business logic) │ ├── models/ # Mongoose models │ ├── routes/ # API routes │ ├── middleware/ # Auth & error middleware │ ├── utils/ # Helper utilities │ └── server.js # App entry point │ ├── scripts/ # Seeders or automation scripts │ └── seed.js │ ├── .env.example # Example environment variables ├── package.json # Root script manager (optional) └── README.md # Project documentation