YoutTube_Clone_Backend Project

You can check the screenshots folder to see how this project in live mode looks.

Technologies Used

• Node.js: Runtime environment for the backend server.
• Express.js: Web application framework for Node.js.
• MongoDB: NoSQL database for data storage.
• Mongoose: ODM library for MongoDB and Node.js.
• bcryptjs: Library for hashing passwords.
• jsonwebtoken: Library for handling JSON Web Tokens (JWT).
• nodemailer: Module for sending emails.
• dotenv: Module for loading environment variables.
• express-fileupload: Middleware for handling file uploads.
• express-mongo-sanitize: Middleware for sanitizing MongoDB queries.
• express-rate-limit: Middleware for rate limiting API requests.
• helmet: Middleware for setting security headers.
• xss-clean: Middleware for sanitizing user input to prevent XSS attacks.
• colors: Library for adding color to console output.
• cookie-parser: Middleware for parsing cookies.
• hpp: Middleware for protecting against HTTP Parameter Pollution.
• morgan: HTTP request logger middleware for Node.js.

Frontend Repository

You can visit to its frontend part here

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 parameter 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

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=[email protected]
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

Website Screenshots

Login

Registration

Home Page

Watch Page

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License

Developed by Marcus Wilkes