README.md

🍿 Movie Night Server

Web app to play local video files and youtube videos in sync with your friends for a great movie night!

⭐️ Demo

🏙 Screenshots

💿 Usage

# install dependencies
$ npm install

# serve with hot reload at localhost:5000
$ npm run dev

‼️ Note

This is the backend of the web app. You can get the frontend here

🌳 Environment Variables

On deploying set FRONTEND_URL env var to the frontend's url

🪜 Steps

1. Create a room ➕
2. Add a name and thumbnail 🌆
3. Add video 🎬
4. Invite your friends 🕺
5. Chill 🍿

💎 Features

🔮 Beautiful UI
🔥 Fast realtime updates
⌛️ No refreshes needed
📺 Floating video
📄 Subtitles

❓ FAQs

1. What can I do with this?

Watch video (local files and youtube) in sync with your friends

2. Does that mean all my friends should have the same video file?

Yes, if you want to watch videos from you device. You can also watch youtube videos by just adding its link

3. Do I have to login to use this?

Absolutely no. All you have to give is a nickname - whatever you prefer

🚗 Roadmap

• Add voice chat
• Add text chat
• Responsive UI
• Add more host controls
• Random Movie integration
• Movie brainstorming board
• Streaming
• Social media of cinephiles

🧑‍💻 Author

Emanuel Christo

🔗 Links

📄 License

MIT

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