letstream

A streaming application made with mern stack

How to operate in your local environment?

Email password and MONGOURI2(production mongouri) has been changed.

Prerequisites

• Node installed (>= v12.16.1)
• npm installed (>= 6.14.7)
• (optional) MongoDB server version (>=3.6.8)

Testing environment

Testing of this application was done in an environment with node version 12.16.1 and npm version 6.14.7 For testing with local mongodb,switch to MONGOURI in db.config.js

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/CSN-291-team-8/letstream.git

Navigate to the main folder

cd letstream

Install server dependencies

npm install

navigate to the client directory and
Include a .env file in client directory
To install client dependencies,

npm install

REACT_APP_UPLOAD_URL=<Your_cloud url>

To use cloudinary for cloud service,
head over to cloudinary.com to get your cloud url.

Modify the .env for server (To be added at the main route)

JWT_SECRET="<ANY_STRING>"
EMAIL="<ADD_YOUR_NEW_EMAIL_ID>" //Add the email which will send OTP to other email
EMAIL_PASS="<ADD_PASSWORD>" //Add your email password
JWT_EXPIRE=30d  // you can add whatever you wish
MONGOURI2="<YOUR_MONGO_URI>" //mongouri when used for production
MONGOURI="mongodb://localhost:27017/letstream" //mongouri for local development
ADMIN_EMAIL="<The admin email>" //This is for notifying admin if a large number of users are reporting a video

Email password in EMAIL_PASS must be strong enough and it must be configured to allow access to less secure app
otherwise google will generate security alert or will block sending email.

Finally run these commands from main directory letstream,

npm start
npm run client

Main Features

• Upload video of your choice
• Host a live event
• Three type of privacy options for your live event or video - 1.Public 2.Only subscribers 3.Custom
• Notifications when someone liked your video or comments in a video
• Options to save video and see liked video or history ,trending videos and your own videos
• Separate section to see live events
• live chat in any live event to maintain interactions among participants and organiser
• Organiser can share their screen in broadcast
• And many more...

Tech stack

We have used MERN stack for building this application.