Youtube Clone

A full-featured YouTube clone developed collaboratively using the MEAN stack, designed to handle video content seamlessly from upload to playback. This project was an exercise in building a scalable, full-stack application with a multi-user ecosystem and complex data relationships.

Key Technical Achievements:

Full-Stack Feature Implementation: Engineered core YouTube functionalities including video upload & storage, streaming via dynamic HTML5 video player, user profiles, and an interactive commenting system.

RESTful API & Backend Architecture: Designed and built a secure Node.js/Express.js backend with a complete set of RESTful APIs for user authentication, video CRUD operations, and comment management, serving data to a dynamic Angular frontend.

Collaborative Development & Data Management: Utilized Git/GitHub for team version control in an Agile workflow and structured MongoDB databases with Mongoose ODM to efficiently handle relationships between Users, Videos, and Comments.

Foundation for Scale: The application's modular structure, with separated concerns for routes, controllers, and models, is built to easily accommodate future features like video recommendations, likes/dislikes, and playlist creation.

Tech Stack: MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, Node.js, TypeScript, RxJS, Mongoose, JWT Authentication.

What I Learned: How to manage complex state in a large Angular application, the importance of clear API design for frontend-backend communication, and best practices for collaborative development and database modeling in a team environment.