Videotube Backend

A robust backend implementation for a video-sharing platform built with Node.js, Express, and MongoDB. The platform provides comprehensive user management, secure authentication, and video handling capabilities.

🚀 Features

• User Management

  • Registration with avatar and cover image upload
  • Login with username/email
  • Password encryption using bcrypt
  • Profile management and updates
  • Watch history tracking

• Authentication & Security

  • JWT-based authentication
  • Access and refresh token mechanism
  • Secure cookie handling
  • Protected routes with middleware

• File Handling

  • Image upload support (avatar, cover image)
  • Cloudinary integration for media storage
  • Multer middleware for file uploads
  • Temporary file cleanup

• API Features

  • RESTful architecture
  • Error handling with custom ApiError class
  • Standardized responses with ApiResponse
  • Async operation handling
  • MongoDB aggregation pipelines

🛠️ Tech Stack

• Node.js
• Express.js
• MongoDB with Mongoose
• JWT for authentication
• Cloudinary for media storage
• Multer for file uploads
• CORS enabled
• Cookie Parser

📊 API Endpoints

User Management

POST /api/v1/users/register
POST /api/v1/users/login
POST /api/v1/users/logout
POST /api/v1/users/refresh-token

Profile Management

POST /api/v1/users/change-password
GET /api/v1/users/current-user
PATCH /api/v1/users/update-account
PATCH /api/v1/users/avatar
PATCH /api/v1/users/cover-image

Channel & History

GET /api/v1/users/c/:username
GET /api/v1/users/history

🚀 Getting Started

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/TheProfessor123/Videotube.git

2. Install dependencies:

cd Videotube
npm install

3. Set up environment variables in .env:

PORT=8000
MONGODB_URI=your_mongodb_uri
CORS_ORIGIN=your_frontend_origin
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=your_access_token_secret
ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRY=1d
REFRESH_TOKEN_SECRET=your_refresh_token_secret
REFRESH_TOKEN_EXPIRY=10d
CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME=your_cloudinary_name
CLOUDINARY_API_KEY=your_cloudinary_key
CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET=your_cloudinary_secret

4. Start the development server:

npm run dev

📝 Project Structure

src/
├── app.js          # Express app setup
├── constants.js    # Global constants
├── controllers/    # Request handlers
├── db/            # Database connection
├── middlewares/   # Custom middlewares
├── models/        # Mongoose models
├── routes/        # API routes
└── utils/         # Helper functions

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

👤 Author

Chhagan Ram Choudhary

• Student at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology
• CGPA: 8.38
• Passionate about software development and backend technologies