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Building a Youtube Clone with Strapi and Flutter
What is your article idea?
In this tutorial, the reader will learn how to build a video Streaming application like YouTube using Strapi as a backend and Flutter as the cross-platform frontend stack.
What are the objectives of your article?
I. Introduction
- The rise of video streaming apps
- Why use Strapi and Flutter?
- Overview of the app we'll build
- Setting Up the Backend with Strapi
- Installing Strapi
- Creating a new Strapi project
- Configuring the database (SQLite, PostgreSQL, or MySQL)
- Modeling Data in Strapi
- Creating a User collection
- Fields: username, email, password, profile_picture
- Configuring roles and permissions
- Creating a Video collection
- Fields: title, description, thumbnail, video_file, views, likes, uploader (relation to User)
- Using Strapi's media library for video and thumbnail uploads
- Creating a Comment collection
- Fields: text, user (relation to User), video (relation to Video), created_at
- Authentication and Authorization
- Enabling JWT authentication in Strapi
- Creating user registration and login APIs
- Securing video upload, comment, and like routes
- Video Streaming with Strapi
- Configuring Strapi for large file uploads
- Using strapi-provider-upload-aws-s3 for scalable video storage (optional)
- Implementing video streaming endpoint
- Using range headers for partial content requests
- Streaming videos in chunks for better performance
- Real-time Features with Socket.IO
- Installing and configuring strapi-plugin-io
- Implementing real-time comments
- Emitting events when comments are created
- Updating comment section in real-time
- Real-time view count and likes (optional)
- Setting Up Flutter Project
- Installing Flutter and setting up your development environment
- Creating a new Flutter project
- Adding necessary dependencies (http, video_player, web_socket_channel)
- User Interface with Flutter
- Creating a bottom navigation bar (Home, Search, Upload, Profile)
- Home screen: Video feed
- Fetching videos from Strapi
- Building a scrollable video list with thumbnails and metadata
- Video player screen
- Using video_player for video playback
- Implementing play/pause, seek, and fullscreen controls
- Displaying comments and likes
- Search screen
- Using Strapi's search API to find videos
- Displaying search results
- Upload screen
- Picking videos from the gallery using image_picker
- Uploading videos to Strapi
- State Management and API Calls
- Choosing a state management solution (Provider)
- Creating services for API calls (user, video, comment)
- Handling authentication tokens and secure storage
- Real-time Updates in Flutter
- Connecting to Socket.IO server from Flutter
- Listening for comment events and updating UI
- Updating view counts and likes in real-time (optional)
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Hi @icode247 ,
Thanks for your proposal! Can we have the title as "Build a Youtube Clone Using Flutter and Strapi"? This would mean, we should have something similar to Youtube.
Also, can you please explain to me how you intend on handling state management.
Please let me know. Thank you!
Hi @Theodore-Kelechukwu-Onyejiaku
The revised topic works too. For the state management, I will be using the Flutter provider package.
@Theodore-Kelechukwu-Onyejiaku Is there any update on this? Should proceed.
Hi @icode247,
Thanks for your contribution! Would you please be willing to use Strapi 5 (https://strapi.io/five) in this project?
Hi @Theodore-Kelechukwu-Onyejiaku
The drafts for this series are ready.
https://hackmd.io/@ovxvnE7IQLGjaZv2kEaAGw/BkvDisYoC
https://hackmd.io/1ZrS0MkJRnqqZFxppUh4Og
https://hackmd.io/@ovxvnE7IQLGjaZv2kEaAGw/SJSIDl6sC
Thank you @icode247 . This is awesome. I just skimmed through them. It seems there is no visual for Part 2.
Meanwhile, I will add this to the review backlog. Thank you for your contribution! 🚀
Hi @icode247 ,
Please add the visual. Thank you for your contribution.
Great work @icode247. However, you used the Entity service API, instead of the Document Service. Please could you update to your Article to use the new Strapi 5 features. You can find more information in the links below:
- https://strapi.io/blog/what-is-new-for-developers-in-strapi-5-top-10-changes
- https://docs.strapi.io/dev-docs/migration/v4-to-v5/breaking-changes