/night-owl

An application that creates private rooms for friends to search, queue, and display Youtube videos real-time for the audience and incorporates a live-chat feature for discussion.

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Welcome to Night Owl

Night Owl is the brainchild of three General Assembly Students Aaron Rascon, Brian Kelly, and Austin Ferrin. In the time of Covid we wanted to be able to bring people together on a purly social platform away from work video calls and madding family group chats you never wanted to be a part of. Night Owl is an App that allows you and your friends to be able to watch anything on Youtube and chat with eachother in real time. It has a retro feel in nature and is here for you endless viewing needs. Please feel free to visit Night Owl

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Technologies Used

  • Mongoose
  • Mongo DB
  • Express
  • React
  • Nodejs
  • Socket.io
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Axios
  • bcrypt
  • JSONwebToken
  • Trello

Planning

Night Owl started their planning using Trello to get the main goals down. Also involved in the planning stage were some rough wire frames from Lucid Chats to find placement of components and flow.

Unsolved Problems

We wanted to be able to select an individual video by the index and remove it from the video Que but due to some functionality we are not currently able to.

Future Enhancements

One feature for our stretch goals was to be able to highlight the background of the current or active video.