Movie BoxOffice

This is a Boxoffice aggregator application, which brings you the latest movies with cheapest prices amongst the listed websites

https://srikanthramamurthy.github.io/boxoffice/

Assumptions

Movie listing doesn't change during the session

• it is assumed that during the user session, movie list doesn't change. hence we are caching the movie list, once received from the server, due to the unreliable nature of the API

• alternative step would have been to reach API each time and use local storage only when API fails and replish the local storage

Movie listing is same across both the websites

• it is assumed that the list of movies is same in both the website to simplify the aggreagation process.

• alternative step would have been to loop through both the site's response and forming a list

Movie prices vary each time

• it is assumed that movie prices vary each time, hence we are not caching the prices. instead we are showing "Not Available" when a particular site fails to respond.

Can be improved

• On API failure, recursive call has been made to avoid users to try again

• alternatively, its a better option to show a message to users to try again instead of recursive tryig, which would have other side effects
• or add a bit more intelligence around retrying failed api calls

• Due to incompatibity of latest react and enzyme libraries, I have used html comparisions instead of a cleaner checks