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Stream Party

PRs Welcome

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

Written with React, Socket.io, and Express.

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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/