youtube-clone-nodejs-api
VueTube is a YouTube clone built with nodejs, expressjs & mongodb. This is the RESTful API repository.
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VueTube RESTful API - YouTube Clone #

VueTube is a YouTube clone built with nodejs, expressjs & mongodb.

Features #

CRUD (Create, Read, Update And Delete)

  • Authentication with JWT (Reset Password with email)
    • Login (User/Admin)
    • Register
    • Forgot Password
  • Pagination and search where necessary
  • API Security (NoSQL Injections, XSS Attacks, http param pollution etc)
  • Video (CRUD)
    • Upload video
    • Upload video thumbnail
    • Watch video
    • Increase Views
    • Like and dislike video
    • Download video
    • Comment & reply for video
    • Update video details
    • Delete video
  • Subscribe to a channel
  • View liked videos
  • Trending
  • Subscriptions
  • History (CRUD)
    • Watch history
    • Search history
  • Settings
    • Modify channel name and email
    • Change password
    • Upload channel avatar

Frontend Repo #

Frontend was developed with vue js and vuetify VueTube

API Documentation #

Hosted on netlify: Coming Soon

Extensive and testing documentation with postman: VueTube API

Database Model #

Though the diagram uses sql data type, this diagram is to show you the various collections in the mongo database.

Screenshot

Requirement #

  • NodeJS
  • MongoDB

Configuration File #

Rename the config/.env.example to .env, then modify to your environment variables, mongodb uri, set your JWT_SECRET and SMTP variables

NODE_ENV=development
PORT=3001

MONGO_URI=YOUR_URL

JWT_SECRET=YOUR_SECRET
JWT_EXPIRE=30d
JWT_COOKIE_EXPIRE=30

FILE_UPLOAD_PATH = ./public/uploads
MAX_FILE_UPLOAD = 1000000

SMTP_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
SMTP_PORT=2525
SMTP_EMAIL=
SMTP_PASSWORD=
FROM_EMAIL=noreply@quizapp.com
FROM_NAME=QuizzApp

Email testing: use mailtrap for email testing, it's easy no stress.

Installation #

Install all npm dependecies

npm install

Install nodemon globally

npm install -g nodemon

Note #

Make sure you run the seeder to get categories in your database or Create a user with the role admin, then add category with the category endpoint.

Run database seeder

  • Seeder folder is _data/
  • Edit the seeder file if you want to
node seeder -i

Delete all data

node seeder -d

Start web server #

node run dev

Screenshots #

Delete the screenshot folder if you download this code (Screenshots folder is 3.14mb in size).

Sign In #

Screenshot

Sign Up #

Screenshot

Home Page #

Screenshot

Watch Page #

Screenshot

Upload Thumbnail Modal #

Screenshot

For more screenshots check out the vue frontend repo VueTube

License #

This project is licensed under the MIT License

Developed by Reagan Ekhameye (Tech Reagan) #

Reach me on twitter @techreagan