Netflix Fullstack Clone 2024

6 min readMay 6, 2023

Lights, Camera, Code: Building a Full-stack Netflix Clone with React for beginners in 2023–24:

Are you ready to create a Netflix clone using React? Well, hold onto your seats because we’re going to take you on a journey to create a full-stack Netflix clone using React, Firebase, Stripe, and Redux. In this article, we’ll provide you with all the steps necessary to create a sleek and user-friendly Netflix clone.

1. Introduction:

We all love Netflix and how it has revolutionized the way we watch movies and TV shows. Now, you can create your own Netflix clone using React. With React’s popularity and advanced capabilities, it’s the perfect choice for this project. In this tutorial, we’ll take you through all the steps to create a Netflix clone.

2. Technologies Used:

To build our Netflix clone, we’ll use the following technologies:

React: a JavaScript library for building user interfaces
Firebase: a backend platform for building web and mobile applications
Stripe: a payment processing platform for online businesses
Redux: a state management tool for JavaScript applications
React-Router: a routing library for React applications
Material UI: a popular UI library for React
Axios: a JavaScript library for making HTTP requests

3. Features:

Our Netflix clone project comes packed with features that will make you feel like you’re using the real thing. Some of its features include:

Authentication: users can sign up, log in, and log out securely
Payment Processing: users can securely pay for their subscription using Stripe
Movie and TV Show Library: users can browse through a collection of movies and TV shows
Plans: users can select and subscribe to their favourite plans
Trailer Playback: users can watch trailers of movies and TV shows
Responsive Design: the project is designed to be responsive on all devices

4. Demo Link:

Before we start, let’s take a look at the live demo of this Fullstack Netflix Clone project at https://netflix-full-clone-ysm.firebaseapp.com/.

5. Steps to use the Netflix-Clone:

Click on Get Started or SignIn button on Home Screen.
Enter any email and password and click on Sign up now link.
Change or Choose plans by clicking Subscribe button.
You can use given (4242 4242 4242 4242 04/24 424) fake credit/debit card info for Stripe Payments.
Click on Netflix logo on top left corner for the Movies Screen and Avatar on top-right corner for Profile
Trailers are not available for every movie but for a few

6. Setting up the environment:

Before we dive into coding, we need to set up our environment. Firstly, we need to install the latest version of Visual Studio Code (VS Code). Secondly, we need to install Node.js and npm on our system. Once we have all these prerequisites, we can start building our app.

Creating a React app:
We will create our React app using Create React App (CRA). We will open our terminal and type the following command:

npx create-react-app netflix-full - template redux

This command will create a new React app named netflix-full.

Adding react-router-dom for routing:
We will add react-router-dom to our project for routing. We can install it using the following command:

npm install react-router-dom

We will then create our routes for different pages, such as the Home page, Sign In page, and Sign Up page.

Building the UI:
We will use HTML, CSS, and Material UI for building the UI. We will create components for different sections of our app, such as the header, footer, banner, and movie rows. We will also use Axios for fetching movie data from the TMDB API.

Adding Firebase authentication:
We will add Firebase authentication to our app, which will enable users to sign in and sign up. We will use Firebase UI for authentication and implement it using React Hooks.

Adding Firestore for storing data:
We will use Firestore, which is a NoSQL database offered by Firebase, for storing data.

Adding Stripe payment gateway:
We will add Stripe payment gateway for users to subscribe to our app. We will use the Stripe API and implement it using React Hooks.

Implementing Redux for state management:
We will use Redux for state management in our app. We will create different reducers for managing the user’s payment status.
Deploying the app:
Once we have completed our app, we can deploy it to Google Firebase Hosting. We will create a Firebase project and deploy our app using the Firebase CLI.

7. Setup for GitHub Clone:

If you want to try out this Full stack Netflix Clone project yourself, follow these steps:

Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/Yogeshmalik/netflix-full-clone.git
Install dependencies: npm install
Start the project: npm start
Open http://localhost:3000 to view the app in your browser.

git clone https://github.com/Yogeshmalik/netflix-full-clone.git

8. Conclusion:

Creating a full-stack Netflix clone using React, Firebase, Stripe, and Redux was a challenging but rewarding experience, I was able to create a project that looks and feels like the real thing. By applying your knowledge of programming, you can create your own Netflix clone with ease. I hope this project inspires you to create something of your own. Thanks for reading!

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