YouTube Watch Party

Overview

YouTube Watch Party is a real-time collaborative platform that allows multiple users to watch YouTube videos together while keeping playback synchronized across all participants.

The application provides room-based collaboration where users can join a shared room and experience synchronized play, pause, seek, and video changes in real time.

Features

- Real-time synchronized playback

- Room creation and joining

- Host, Moderator, and Participant roles

- Live participant tracking

- YouTube IFrame API integration

- Responsive user interface

Tech Stack

- React.js

- Node.js

- Express.js

- MongoDB

- Socket.IO

- YouTube IFrame API

- Vercel

- Render

My Contributions

- Developed the frontend using React.js.

- Built backend APIs with Express.js.

- Integrated Socket.IO for real-time synchronization.

- Implemented role-based access control (RBAC).

- Designed room management logic.

- Connected MongoDB for room and user data.

- Deployed frontend on Vercel and backend on Render.

Challenges

Keeping every connected client synchronized during play, pause, seek, and video changes while minimizing latency.

What I Learned

- Real-time communication using Socket.IO

- Event-driven architecture

- State synchronization

- Role-based authorization

- Full-stack deployment