How To Code A Video Streaming Server in NodeJS

How to code a simple server that streams video instead of downloading the whole video.

Coding Begins: 1:53

[hnasr]

Man this is pretty cool, thanks Abdi!! Keep it up

Since the videoSize is unlikely to change, I would move the call to obtain the statsSync outside the /video endpoint.

[gamingllama]

You know I have no idea who you are but just from that introduction I can already tell you'll have 100K subs within the next year

[edwardmacnab]

I don't know why you don't do more videos like this. By just watching stuff like this people learn a lot and what might seem easy and obvious to you is pretty obscure to many of us. Thank you for this nice little presentation, It was very informative. But please, could we have more ?

[midnightcigarettes]

I'm trying to build an audio streaming server instead, and this is helping me get the blocks I need to piece things together.
Thanks Abdi!

[alejandropoirier]

Nice video, I'm a front end developer and I was contacted by a streaming company to have a chat, they offered my a position and I have to learn all this stuff as soon as posible :)

[candidodmv]

Congratulations for this simple but very helpful video. I got a question: when you skipt to a specific point of the video, the intermediate chunks are downloaded too or not?

Thanks and hello from Brazil!

[franktfrisby]

very cool and I like the way you walk through the video explaining all of the parts. Thanks

[Epistemer]

you explained everything so clearly, loved it

[ArisFilms]

Extremely informative and straightforward. Thank you.

[alexandrumarius]

Thank you man, very well explained, with all the details and very good English!

[chadzulu]

Very clear and easy to understand explanation, thanks so much Abdi!

[joselito]

Thanks, dude, for showing me how to stream video. It also gave me the motivation to pay attention to http headers.

[arthurk]

Great tutorial, thanks. How would this work in practice, though? The video blobs will presumably reside on S3/GCS/whatever. When a request for a video comes in, surely the server wouldn't fetch the whole video and keep it in memory, while serving chunks of it? Would it prefetch chunks of the video from blob storage and serve that until the next chunk is required? Or would the server containers somehow connect to a huge local storage area network with all the videos?

[kjw]

Great video! It helped me grasp an upcoming feature we are implementing.

Question, what tests would be applicable to write for this?

[markericfairweather]

This is Netflix's architecture. Love to see this Abdi!

[hdadpool]

Great explanation with the pros and cons, and especially the introduction. Keep going brother!

[aghiadalzein]

that was the most clear description, thanks

[elad]

Thank you brother. I will try this out. I look forward to more tutorials

[shivangchaturvedi]

Man oh man!! Thank you! I will be waiting for more such content from you.

[thomasminoungou]

What a great tutorial!!! Just one question, who do I apply this but with a video store in the cloud? If you have any resource I will really appreciate it!