📽️ VideoTube – Full Stack Video Platform Backend

A powerful backend for a full-fledged video-sharing platform built with Node.js, Express, MongoDB, and Cloudinary. It handles everything from user authentication to video uploads, playlists, likes, subscriptions, and much more.

🔥 Features

• JWT Authentication (Access + Refresh Tokens)
• Cloudinary File Uploads (Thumbnail + Video)
• Video CRUD with pagination, filters, sorting
• Likes / Subscriptions / Comments / Playlists
• User profile with avatar & cover image updates
• Postman-tested REST API
• MongoDB Aggregations for advanced queries

⚙️ Tech Stack

• Node.js + Express.js
• MongoDB + Mongoose
• Cloudinary for file uploads
• JWT for authentication
• Multer for file handling
• Postman for API testing
• Render for backend hosting

🗂️ Folder Structure

├── src
│   ├── controllers/         # Business logic of each route
│   ├── middlewares/         # JWT, error handling, file handling
│   ├── models/              # Mongoose schemas (User, Video, Comment, etc.)
│   ├── routes/              # All Express routes
│   ├── utils/               # Utility files (Cloudinary logic, error handlers, etc.)
│   ├── index.js             # Entry point
│   └── app.js               # Express App config
├── .env                     # Environment variables
├── .gitignore               # Files to be ignored by Git
├── package.json             # Project metadata and dependencies

📦 Installation

git clone https://github.com/your-username/your-repo-name.git
cd your-repo-name
npm install

🧪 Run the Server

npm run dev

🔐 Environment Variables

Create a .env file in the root with the following:

PORT=8000
MONGODB_URI=your_mongodb_uri
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=your_access_token_secret
REFRESH_TOKEN_SECRET=your_refresh_token_secret
CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME=your_cloud_name
CLOUDINARY_API_KEY=your_api_key
CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET=your_api_secret

📮 API Testing

All routes have been tested with Postman. You can import the collection and start playing around.

🌐 Deployment

This backend is live and deployed on Render:
🔗 VideoTube

You can use this live URL in your frontend or Postman to interact with the API — no local setup needed.

📷 Screenshots

Healthcheck Endpoint (GET /api/v1/healthcheck)

💻 Contributions

Feel free to raise issues or submit PRs to improve the project.

🧑‍💻 Author

Made with ❤️ by Kartik Garg Github:Github LinkedIn:LinkedIn

🙏🏻 Acknowledgment

A Big Thanks To Hitesh Sir Chai aur Code for this wonderful journey of learning this project and backend.