SPUDTUBE - NodeJS version

A very very very very very hacky streaming service....that needs some serious work...ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

API: built with NodeJS + Restify

Web: built with NodeJS + Express + Handlebars

Requirements

NodeJS (I prefer using NVM https://github.com/creationix/nvm) Google Chrome (for the UI)

Installation

Clone the repository

git clone git@github.com:spudmashmedia/spudtube.git

hydrate node_modules

cd spudtube
npm install

Test Run

fire up PM2 to launch both the API and Web UI

npm run start

this should now start up

WEB (this has the video player) http://localhost:3000/spud.tube API (streaming service) http://localhost:5000

Viewing Media

[TO FIX] currently, a query string token ?v=[token] is used to map to a correlating video located in the public folder. right now token = filename. The extension is automatically added in.

Use Google Chrome to see the byte blocks streamed over. (the API will log which block range is streaming during timeline seeking).

[TODO] actually have the token map back to a lookup which then maps to a file location in public.

Instrumentation

View PM2 dashboard

pm2 dashboard

Stopping PM2

To stop PM2

npm run stop

Test

To run unit test

npm run test

TODO

• Make the UI look nicer, currently looks like a blah...
• Create a version of the UI with Polymer web components (custom media player)
• Create a version of the UI with React
• Create a version of the UI with Angular
• Add some persistance (maybe a way to upload media and update token->file mapping)

Contributing

1. Fork it!
2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
3. Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
5. Submit a pull request :D

History

• V1

License

MIT