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.

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

Sign Up

Home Page

Watch Page

Upload Thumbnail Modal

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