Splay: A Lightweight Video Streaming Application

Splay is a video streaming progressive web application which uses YouTube as a server and storage for videos and the app itself resides on our own desired server. Splay achieves this by using embed feature provided by YouTube and hence can even be hosted on a smaller server without carrying the load of videos. It is developed to work on any given device and any given platform provided, the given device has a browser. An app shell architecture is implemented in splay with the use of service workers and JavaScript for the technology stack. It uses React.js for developing user interfaces and achieving a single page application model for the more native-like experience. Node.js and Mongo DB are the ones powering the back end of the application. This paper basically focuses on the architecture and working of the application and our main focus is to collect all important educational videos of college including lectures, tutorials on one platform with proper content management as desired by the institute or organization using it.