YouTube
February 27, 2023
Ashish Keshri
YouTube player search and play the videos live. Tools used React JS, Material UI HTML, CSS JavaScript. RESTFul API
React JS
RESTFul API
MUI
Building a Video Streaming Application with React
Introduction
Building a video streaming application might seem daunting at first, but this guide will breakdown how this can be achieved. Specifically, we’ll demonstrate how to implement a streaming service with the following components:
- A client application in React that will consume the videos on our server. This application will have two views: a listing of videos that are available, and a player view for each video.
About Video Streams
Videos work with streams. This means that instead of sending the whole video at once, a video is sent as a set of smaller chunks which make up the full video. This explains why if you are on a slow broadband and watching a video, it buffers because it plays the chunk it has received and tries to load more.
Before You Begin
For this tutorial, you’ll need:
- A basic understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React
- A text editor (e.g. VS Code or Atom)
- A web browser (e.g. Chrome, Firefox)
- FFmpeg installed on your workstation
Application Setup
For the purposes of this tutorial, both the server application and the client application will be built on your workstation. To get started, create a new directory that will contain both components of your application. You can do this from the terminal or a GUI interface:
npx create-react-app app-name
https://reactjs.org/
React UI tools
MUI offers a comprehensive suite of UI tools to help you ship new features faster. Start with Material UI, our fully-loaded component library, or bring your own design system to our production-ready components.
Products
Every component you need is ready for production