watch2gether

A simple, minimalistic websockets and Next.js based webapplication, where you can watch videos with your friends together. This repo is for the backend code.

You can reach the frontend code here.

Demo

Demo on Vercel

Installation

Clone the project and install dependencies

  git clone https://github.com/petya0927/watch2gether-backend.git
  cd watch2gether-backend
  npm install

Start the express server

  npm run start

You can reach the Express server REST API and websocket API at localhost:8081.

Tech Stack

Client: Next.js, React, TailwindCSS, Socket.io, ReactPlayer

Server: Node, Express, Socket.io, sqlite

Contributing

All contributions, issues, feature requests and pull requests are welcome. Even if this is only a small project, I belive it's improtant to make it open and free for everybody to contribute.

License

MIT