Video Stream With Node.js and HTML5

Diogo Spínola
Jul 24, 2017 · 4 min read
Beverly Nguyen

Someone asked me how to video stream using Node.js. This was something I hadn’t tried yet, so I thought, “why not!” Let me share my findings with you.

The challenge was to create a route which sends a .mp4 file to a page and makes the video available for viewing.

The way I decomposed it:

  • Make a server route to feed the video.

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Diogo Spínola

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