Django Video Streaming App 📺🚀

This is a web-based video streaming app built using Django in the backend and JavaScript/HTMX in the frontend.

📦 Features

• Stream videos from a variety of content creators Like in YouTube.
• Search for specific videos or browse by category
• Create and share playlists with friends
• Leave comments and Likes on videos

⚒️ Technologies

• Django: a powerful web framework for Python that handles the backend logic and serves the frontend
• JavaScript/HTMX: some custom JS + HTMX - a powerful tool for building interactive web applications with minimal JavaScript
• MUX: a video streaming API that handles the streaming and playback of video content
• Ubuntu VPS/Heroku/Render: a virtual private server for hosting the app and serving the content to users
• AWS s3: a cloud storage service for hosting static files such as images and videos
• Postgres: a powerful and reliable database for storing user and app data
• Docker: a containerization platform for packaging and deploying applications in a lightweight and portable manner
• Playwright: a tool for testing web applications
• Kubernetes: a powerful system for managing containerized applications at scale
• GitHub Actions: a powerful CI/CD platform for automating the deployment of applications

🪟🐧 OS I used for development

Windows 11 + WSL2 ( Ubuntu 18.04 )

Project Architecture Diagram

📌Note:I have not included Docker & Kubernetes in architecture, since I am still learning & not sure about their all benefits. but will update this diagram, once I reach at the scaling part.

🤝 Contributing

If you would like to contribute to this project, please follow the steps below:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a new branch for your feature.
3. Commit your changes and push to the new branch.
4. Create a pull request from your branch to the main branch of this repository.

We welcome any contributions, big or small! Thank you for your interest in this project.