Frontend changes

I still need to change the path of the excel in convert_to_JSON.js to be the updated data xlsx lmao

scripts/convert_to_JSON.js

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+// convert excel dataset to JSON for easier parsing & easier deployment
+const XLSX = require("xlsx");
+const fs = require("fs");
+const path = require("path");
+
+const filePath = path.join(__dirname, "../preprocessed_data.xlsx")          // path to excel file -- change this path to be spreadsheets\updated_datav2.xlsx
+const workbook = XLSX.readFile(filePath);                                   // read excel workbook
+
+const sheetName = workbook.SheetNames[0];                                   // get first sheet 
+const sheet = workbook.Sheets[sheetName];
+
+const rawData = XLSX.utils.sheet_to_json(sheet);                            // convert to JSON
+
+const cleanedData = rawData.map((movie) => ({                               // transform data 
+    title: movie.Title,
+    director: movie.Director || "",
+    cast: movie.Cast || "",
+    genre: movie.Genre || "",
+    plot: movie.Plot || "",
+    releaseDate: movie["Release Date"] || "",
+    slug: movie.Slug || "",
+    poster: movie["Poster Filename"]
+        ? `/posters/${movie["Poster Filename"]}`
+        : null,
+}));
+
+fs.writeFileSync(path.join(__dirname, "../movies.json"), JSON.stringify(cleanedData, null, 2));
+
+// to run: node scripts/convertExcelToJson.js