🎥 Production-Ready Video Streaming & Social Media Backend Clone

A robust, enterprise-grade REST API backend built to mimic production systems like YouTube. This platform manages video uploads, user authentication, secure data relations, channel subscriptions, tweets, likes, playlists, and analytics.

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🚀 Key Features

• Secure Authentication: Secure user signup, login, and logout tracking with Access and Refresh Tokens stored securely in HTTP-Only cookies.
• Media Handling Engine: Scalable asset uploads (avatars, cover images, video files, thumbnails) handled via Multer middleware and processed instantly through Cloudinary cloud storage.
• Advanced Database Aggregation: Clean application layer pipelines utilizing MongoDB/Mongoose aggregation frameworks for custom subscriber metrics, channel dashboards, and watch histories.
• Comprehensive Platform Features: Full implementations for Video controls (publish/hide, view counts), Channel Subscriptions, Playlists, Comments, Post Likes, and Tweeting.

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🏗️ System Architecture

The project follows a scalable, production-grade Model-View-Controller (MVC) separation of concerns layer:

src/
├── app.js          # Express app initialization & globally used middlewares
├── index.js        # Production server entry point & DB configuration injection
├── constants.js    # Immutable system-wide variables (e.g., DB Name)
├── db/             # Mongoose connection handling configurations
├── controllers/    # Request processing orchestrators (Core business logic)
├── models/         # Robust MongoDB structural schemas & data validation
├── routes/         # Clean REST endpoint route maps mapping to controllers
├── middlewares/    # Session validation & temporary file interceptors
└── utils/          # Standardized ApiError templates, Responses, & Cloudinary handlers