README.md

React Server Side Rendering

This is a simple project to experiement with youtube api and react server side rendering.

To see demo: https://murmuring-beach-19954.herokuapp.com/

Getting started

Install dependencies with npm install

Run dev mode with npm run dev

Test locally: http://localhost:2048

MongoDB

Video Schema

  {
    _id: primary ID, 
    videoId: String,    // video Id used to display video
    title: String, 
    poster: String      // thumbnail url
  }

React Components

App: root component that handles most of the state management and action calls

List: creates a list of recomended videos from search and recently viewed history

Video: displays video and its comments when clicked

Client.js

This part is the only part that's not server side rendering. It is the entry file for webpack to create bundle.js to ran on the client. Css are loaded using css-loader. The bundle file can be found in dist folder.

ga.js

Helper function that implements google youtube api

Server.js

Setup server and api

  GET /videos: return 10 top most recently viewed videos

  POST /videos: save a revently viewed video

Index (SSR)

This is the entry file to start node server. This file loads the babel-register and sets up the babel plugins needed to run JSX and ESModules on the server.

node index.js

Deployment

This project deploys to heroku using mongodb addon

  "scripts": {
    "heroku-postbuild": "webpack",
    "start": "node index.js",
  }