📺 VideoTube Backend

Backend API for a video sharing platform similar to YouTube.

🚀 Deployment Links

• Live Backend: https://videotube-xby8.onrender.com
• Live Frontend: https://video-tube-frontend-sepia.vercel.app

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🚀 Features

• 🔐 User Authentication (JWT)
• 📹 Video Upload & Management
• 💬 Comments System
• ❤️ Like / Unlike functionality
• 📝 Tweets (Community Posts)
• 📂 Playlist creation and management
• 👤 Channel Profile System
• 📊 Channel Stats (views, subscribers, likes)
• 📡 RESTful API architecture
• 🗂 Modular MVC folder structure

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🛠 Tech Stack

Backend Framework

• Node.js
• Express.js

Database

• MongoDB
• Mongoose ODM

Authentication

• JWT
• Cookies

File Handling

• Cloudinary / Multer

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📂 Project Structure

videotube-backend
│
├── src
│   ├── controllers
│   │   ├── video.controller.js
│   │   ├── tweet.controller.js
│   │   ├── comment.controller.js
│   │   ├── like.controller.js
│   │   └── playlist.controller.js
│   │
│   ├── models
│   │   ├── user.model.js
│   │   ├── video.model.js
│   │   ├── comment.model.js
│   │   ├── like.model.js
│   │   ├── tweet.model.js
│   │   └── playlist.model.js
│   │
│   ├── routes
│   │   ├── user.routes.js
│   │   ├── video.routes.js
│   │   ├── tweet.routes.js
│   │   ├── comment.routes.js
│   │   ├── like.routes.js
│   │   └── playlist.routes.js
│   │
│   ├── middlewares
│   │   ├── auth.middleware.js
│   │   └── multer.middleware.js
│   │
│   ├── utils
│   │   └── ApiResponse.js
│   │
│   └── app.js
│
├── package.json
└── README.md

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🔑 API Modules

👤 User

• Register user
• Login user
• Update profile
• Subscribe / unsubscribe channels

📹 Video

• Upload video
• Update video
• Delete video
• Fetch videos
• Get channel videos

💬 Comments

• Add comment
• Update comment
• Delete comment
• Fetch video comments

❤️ Likes

• Like / Unlike video
• Like comments
• Like tweets

📝 Tweets

• Create tweet
• Update tweet
• Delete tweet
• Fetch tweets

📂 Playlists

• Create playlist
• Add video to playlist
• Remove video from playlist
• Fetch playlists

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⚙️ Installation

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/videotube.git

Move into project

cd videotube-backend

Install dependencies

npm install

Create .env file

PORT=8000
MONGODB_URI=your_mongodb_uri
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=your_secret
REFRESH_TOKEN_SECRET=your_secret
CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME=your_cloud_name
CLOUDINARY_API_KEY=your_api_key
CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET=your_api_secret

Start development server

npm run dev

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📡 Example API Endpoints

Upload Video

POST /api/v1/videos

Get All Videos

GET /api/v1/videos

Add Comment

POST /api/v1/comments/:videoId

Like Video

POST /api/v1/likes/toggle/video/:videoId

Create Playlist

POST /api/v1/playlists

👨‍💻 Author

Tanmay Mishra

• GitHub: https://github.com/TanmayCloud251
• LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tanmaymi251/
• Email: tanmaycloud251@gmail.com

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