A YouTube like video streaming app built using ReactJS

by React

wetube-react

Video streaming app built using ReactJS and YouTube API

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Features:

  • YouTube API allowing searching and playing videos directly from YouTube.
  • Advanced search to filter search results by order, duration, etc.
  • Dark mode to reduce eye strain while binge watching.

App screenshots:

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Running the app:

  1. Clone the project repo

     git clone https://github.com/sourhub226/wetube-react.git

  2. Move to root directory of the project

     cd wetube-react

  3. Obtain a developer key for YouTube API v3 from here

  4. Create a .env file based on .env.template provided and put the above obtained key in it.
    The contents of the .env file should look something like this:

     API_KEY=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

  5. Install all required npm packages

     npm install

  6. Run the app

     npm run dev