The easiest HD video AWS S3 streaming app
This package now uses the new and imporved s3-readstream npm package!! I left the original "blog version" file in so you can still how everything works. But if you want to use this in one of your own projects its even easier!
https://www.npmjs.com/package/s3-readstream
There have also been some improvments, check it out!
This is a project I made to substitute a blog I wrote on Dev Community. Be sure to read the blog and let me know how you like it!
Streaming file from AWS S3 using NodeJS Stream API with Typescript
In order to run this app you will need to have an AWS S3 account and bucket to obtain your access key and secret. You can follow this guide to set it up.
You will also need to download a HD .mp4 video file. I used this awesome coffee one
This is an extremely simple streaming solution to show the power of the NodeJS Readable class in the standard Stream module.
Although the SmartStream class is extremely solid, the express server and streaming implementation is not.
After the reception I have recieved from the blog, I decided I would make this test project to help people understand how to use this streaming solution for video.
For a second I thought I would do an entire blog, and implement the SmartStream proper, alas I am lazy. If I am going to do another blog it won't be about writing a frontend, it's just not my cup of tea.
You can browse through the files and see that we are making a HD video streaming app with only a few simple lines of code.
We are literally piping the SmartStream directly into the http response, no headers or anything.
Although this is very cool, and shows the power of the SmartStream class, more work should go into implementing a legit streaming solution.
Clone or fork this repo to get it on your machine.
You need to add a .env file
From the root of the project run:
touch .env
Then copy this into the .env file and replace the values with your variables.
S3_ACCESS_KEY=<Your S3 access key>
S3_SECRET_KEY=<Your S3 secret key>
S3_BUCKET=<Your S3 bucket>
S3_KEY=<Your video file name (leave off the .mp4 extension)>
We are only using the aws-sdk, express, dotenv, and, of course, the s3-readstream packages to keep it incredibly simple
Run the install command:
npm install
I have added simple build, clean, and copy-file commands into the package.json scripts so all you need to do is run:
npm start
After this you can visit http://localhost:8080/ and you should see your HD video start playing!