kinoimblauensalon.de

Website for the cinema "Kino im Blauen Salon" in HfG Karlsruhe based on Remix and PayloadCMS. The website is showcasing future and past screening events. The CMS is used to manage the events, featuring an import function to import movie metadata from TMDB.

Features

• Showcase upcoming and past events
• Import movie metadata from TMDB
• HTML email newsletter generation
• PDF press release generation
• .ics calendar files for events

Development

Make sure to create a .env file in the project root similar to the .env.example file. You will need a TMDB API key to fetch movie data and a Listmonk installation to manage your subscribers and send newsletters.
The S3 configuration is optional, not needed for development.

pnpm i
pnpm dev
# frontend is running on localhost:5173
# cms is running on localhost:3000

# to seed the database (will fetch some movie data from TMDB, make sure you have your api key in the .env)
pnpm seed

Deployment

The frontend is running on vercel, the CMS on fly.io using the Dockerfile in the project root.

Listmonk Integration

The mailings collection is integrated with the Listmonk installation. To set it up, install listmonk, create a list for your subscribers and set up an API user in the listmonk admin panel with the following campaigns:manage permission. Populate your .env with:

• LISTMONK_URL: the root URL of your listmonk installation, e.g. https://listmonk.example.com
• LISTMONK_API_KEY: consists of the API user's name and token, e.g. api-user:api-token
• LISTMONK_LIST_ID: the ID of your subscribers list

For your frontend's signup form, you will also need:

• LISTMONK_LIST_UUID: the UUID of your subscribers list