MERN Stack YouTube Clone

This is a YouTube Clone that implements the main features of YouTube solely intended for educational purposes and is created under fair use.

* Video Uploads are limited to 25 MB.

Technologies

• MongoDB & Mongoose for the database
• Node & Express for the backend
• Fluent FFMPEG for video proccessing
• Google OAuth2 for authentication
• Google Drive API for cloud storage (services like AWS S3 and Google Cloud is recommended for production applications)
• React for the frontend
• Redux for frontend application state
• Material UI for UI

Features

• Google OAuth
• Video upload, streaming, commenting, and rating
• Channel subscriptions
• Trending, recommended, and categorized videos
• Video searching
• Pagination
• Watch history
• Video Playlist
• Updating & deleting videos
• Going live

Running Locally

Configuring environment variables

• Rename client's .env-sample to .env
• Rename server's .env-sample to .env
• Fill in the environment variable values in both .env files

Starting the App

• npm install to install all dependencies
• npm run dev to run both client & backend in development
• cd server && npm run server to run only backend
• cd client && npm start to run only client

Deploy to Heroku

The neccessary environment variables & buildpacks are defined in app.json