jengmicah / streamparty

A video synchronization platform.

Stream Party

An online video synchronization platform to watch videos with your friends and family.

Written with React, Socket.io, and Express.

Features

• Supported services:
  • YouTube
  • Vimeo
  • Twitch
• Sync video playback with other users in your room
  • play, pause, seek, video change, queues
• Search YouTube videos directly inside the site
• Chat with your friends
• Add videos to a queue
• Track your video watching history
• User customization

Potential Features

• Potentially supported services:
  • Facebook
  • Wistia
  • DailyMotion
  • SoundCloud
  • Mixcloud
• Public and private rooms (browse public rooms)
• Video and audio chat support
• Search videos by channel
• Change panel size
• User progress bar
• Dark mode

Quick Start

• Clone this repo: git clone https://github.com/jengmicah/streamparty.git
• In /server, install packages and start the server.
  • Install packages: npm install
  • Start the server: npm start (defaults to port 5000 but is customizable by adding PORT to .env)
  • Duplicate .env.example and rename to .env
• In /client, install packages and start the React application.
  • Install packages: npm install
  • Start the app: npm start (defaults to port 3000)
  • Duplicate .env.example and rename to .env
• Update .env files in /server and /client with the correct URLs (i.e. http://localhost:5000, http://localhost:3000)
• Video API used is hosted at https://video-meta.herokuapp.com/
  • Example of how this is used can be found in the Search component