To launch make sure you have Flask and React installed along with all modules for backend (flask, flask_cors, SQLAlchemy, pymysql, dotenv, requests, etc)
If using a local database that needs to be populated simply navigate to the app folder and run ./populate.py, if that does not work move the populate.py file one directory up (in backend) and try running populate.py
To run the flask app begin a terminal and run python run.py OR flask run
To run the react app begin another teminal navigate to the movie-review-app folder and run npm start
To access the admin panel please enter "Admin" for the username and "123" for the password.
Generative AI was used to help during debugging and refactoring in this project