🚀StreamX – Full-Featured JavaScript Backend API

Full-featured JavaScript Backend API inspired by YouTube + X (Twitter)

This project is a production-ready Node.js + Express backend powered by MongoDB, featuring JWT authentication, Cloudinary media uploads, playlist management, video and tweet modules, likes, comments, subscriptions, and full dashboard analytics — all structured using scalable MVC architecture and optimized MongoDB aggregation pipelines.

📌Features

🔐 Authentication & Authorization

• Register/login/logout

• Refresh tokens

• Password hashing & token refresh

• JWT-based secure authentication

• Protected routes with verifyJWT middleware

👤 User System

• Update username, email, password

• Update avatar and cover image (Cloudinary upload + old image deletion)

• Get User channel profile

• User dashboard analytics

• Subscriptions (channel → subscriber system)

🎥 Video Module

• Upload videos & thumbnails via Cloudinary

• Publish / Unpublish videos

• Update & delete videos

• Like / Unlike videos

• Comment system

• Video views

• Get channel videos

• Dashboard analytics for views, likes, comments

• Pagination & aggregation queries

📝 Tweet Module

• Create, update, delete tweets

• Like / Unlike tweets

• Comment on tweets

• Fetch tweet comments using aggregation

• Fetch user tweets with like count & isLiked flag

💬 Comments Module

• Add comments to videos or tweets

• Update & delete comments

• Like comments

• Aggregation-based comment fetching with:

  • Owner details

  • likesCount

  • isLiked

❤️ Likes System

• Like videos, tweets, or comments

• ToggleLike controllers

• Get all liked videos by a user

📺 Playlists Module

• Create playlist

• Add/remove videos in playlists

• Delete playlist

• Get all playlists

• Aggregated playlist details with video info

🔔 Subscriptions

• Subscribe/Unsubscribe to a channel

• Get all subscribers of a user’s channel

• Get all channels a user subscribed to

🧾 Dashboard

• Channel analytics (total subscribers, videos, tweets, views, likes, comments)

• Video analytics (likes, comments, createdAt parts)

🔍 Health Check

• API health status endpoint

Link

Model link

☁️ Cloudinary Integration

• Upload avatar, cover image, thumbnails, and videos

• Delete old images using:

  • deleteOnCloudinary()

• Auto-detect resource type (image/video)

🛠️ Error Handling & Utilities

• Custom ApiError and ApiResponse classes

• Async wrapper asyncHandler

• Mongoose validation handling

• Clean folder structure

• Environment variable setup

🛠️Tech Stack

Layer	Technology
Runtime	Node.js
Framework	Express.js
Database	MongoDB + Mongoose
Authentication	JWT
Media storage	Cloudinary
File upload	Multer
Password hashing	Bcrypt
Utilities	Custom Error & Response handlers
Tools	Nodemon, Prettier

📁 Folder Structure

src/
│── controllers/
│   ├── comment.controller.js
│   ├── dashboard.controller.js
│   ├── healthcheck.controller.js
│   ├── like.controller.js
│   ├── playlist.controller.js
│   ├── subscription.controller.js
│   ├── tweet.controller.js
│   └── user.controller.js
│   └── video.controller.js
│
│── db/
│   └── index.js
│
│── middlewares/
│   ├── auth.middleware.js
│   └── multer.middleware.js
│
│── models/
│   ├── comment.model.js
│   ├── like.model.js
│   ├── playlist.model.js
│   ├── subscription.model.js
│   ├── tweet.model.js
│   ├── user.model.js
│   └── video.model.js
│
│── routes/
│   ├── comment.routes.js
│   ├── dashboard.routes.js
│   ├── healthcheck.routes.js
│   ├── like.routes.js
│   ├── playlist.routes.js
│   ├── subscription.routes.js
│   ├── tweet.routes.js
│   ├── user.routes.js
│   └── video.routes.js
│
│── utils/
│   ├── ApiError.js
│   ├── ApiResponse.js
│   ├── asyncHandler.js
│   ├── cloudinary.js
│   ├── constants.js
│   └── index.js
│
├── app.js
├── package.json
└── .env

📦Installation

Clone the repository

 git clone https://github.com/NausheenFaiyaz/Javascript_backend_Project.git
 cd Javascript_backend_Project

Install dependencies

 npm install

🔧Create .env file

PORT= 8000
CORS_ORIGIN=*
MONGODB_URI= xxxx
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET= xxxx
ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRY= 1d
REFRESH_TOKEN_SECRET= xxxx
REFRESH_TOKEN_EXPIRY= 10d
CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME= xxxx
CLOUDINARY_API_KEY= xxxx
CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET= xxxx

Running Tests

To run server, run the following command

  npm run dev

🧪 Testing (Postman Recommended)

Import all routes using provided endpoints and test protected routes with JWT token.