🎬BoredTube

Introduction

🎬 BoredTube is a video sharing service similar to YouTube, with built-in Twitter-like features. This project provides a complete video management system. It includes user management, video upload and editing, tweet management, subscription management, playlist management, and more. Built with Node.js, Express.js, and MongoDB, BoredTube is strong and can grow easily. It connects with Cloudinary for storing media and uses JWT for secure login. With detailed API documentation and a focus on user experience, BoredTube aims to offer a smooth and efficient video management system.

Important links

Content	Link
API Documentation	click here
Data Model	click here

Features

User Management:

• Registration, login, logout, change password
• Profile management (avatar, cover image, other details)
• Watch history tracking and Clearing Watch History
• Liked videos tracking

Video Management:

• Video upload
• Canceling Video upload with all resources cleaned up on backend.
• Visibility control (publish/un-publish)
• Video editing and deletion
• Video Search and pagination

Tweet Management:

• Tweet creation and publishing
• Viewing user tweets
• Updating and deleting tweets
• Liking-disliking tweets

Subscription Management:

• Subscribing to channels
• Viewing Channel subscriber
• Viewing Subscribed channel lists

Playlist Management:

• Creating, updating, and deleting playlists
• Adding videos to playlists
• Removing videos from playlists and undoing them
• Viewing user playlists

Like Management:

• Liking and Un-liking videos, comments, and tweets
• Viewing liked videos

Comment Management:

• Adding, updating, and deleting comments on videos

Dashboard:

• Viewing channel statistics (views, subscribers, videos, likes)
• Accessing uploaded videos and Controls
• Viewing Video statistics (PublishStatus, VideoName, DateUploaded, Views, TotalComments, LikeRatings)

Health Check:

• Endpoint to verify the server's health

Technologies

• Node.js
• Express.js
• MongoDB
• Mongoose
• JWT
• Cloudinary
• Jest & Supertest
• Docker
• Github actions

Installation and Setup

Prerequisites

• Node.js (v20.x)
• Docker (optional, for containerized deployment)
• MongoDB (local or cloud instance)
• Cloudinary account (for media storage)

Environment Variables

Create a .env file in the root directory of the project and populate it with the variables in .env.sample file.

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

    git clone https://github.com/sujal-goswami/BoredTube.git
    cd boredtube

2. Install dependencies:

    npm install

Running the Application

Development

To run the application in development mode:

    npm run dev

Production

To run the application in production mode:

    npm run start

Running Tests

To run the tests:

    npm run test

Docker Setup

To build and run the application using Docker:

1. Build the Docker image:

    docker build --target development -t boredtube:latest .

2. Run the Docker container:

    docker run -d --name boredtube -p 8000:8000 \
    -e PORT=8000 \
    -e MONGODB_URL=your_mongodb_url \
    -e CORS_ORIGIN=your_cors_origin \
    -e ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=your_access_token_secret \
    -e ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRY=your_access_token_expiry \
    -e REFRESH_TOKEN_SECRET=your_refresh_token_secret \
    -e REFRESH_TOKEN_EXPIRY=your_refresh_token_expiry \
    -e CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME=your_cloudinary_cloud_name \
    -e CLOUDINARY_API_KEY=your_cloudinary_api_key \
    -e CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET=your_cloudinary_api_secret \
    boredtube:latest

Continuous Integration and Deployment

This project uses GitHub Actions for CI/CD. The workflows are defined in the .github/workflows directory.

• Deploy Workflow
• Test Workflow

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you have any ideas, suggestions, or bug reports, please open an issue or submit a pull request. Let's make 🎬BoredTube even better together! for more details refer CONTRIBUTING.md .

License

🎬BoredTube is licensed under the MIT License. Feel free to modify, distribute, and use the code for personal or commercial projects.