Close the Remaining Browse Gaps

The main features are now connected, but a production-ready browse page needs a few final behaviors to feel complete. This module closes the gaps around request failures, empty results, search-specific behavior, and pagination.

The first two lessons are about what users see when data is not ideal. Instead of an empty grid or a raw server exception, the browse page will explain what happened. Then you will align the page with a real TMDB constraint: text search uses a different endpoint and does not support the same genre and sort combination as discovery.

Finally, you will make the pagination logic respect the current browse mode and URL state. These are not extra features layered onto the project; they are the final details that make the behaviors already present in Matinee predictable.

By the end of the module, the browse page will handle successful and unsuccessful requests, no-match searches, TMDB’s search limitation, and the final pagination rules without changing the visual design.