YouTube Clone Website using ReactJS

Introduction

Building a YouTube clone is an excellent way to improve your web development skills and understand the implementation of key features in a complex application.
This tutorial will cover the setup of the development environment, building a responsive UI, using YouTube Data API, and displaying real-time YouTube data and videos.
Project overview:
- Navigation bar with logo, search box, and icons
- Left sidebar with categories and subscribed channels
- Video list fetched from YouTube API
- Category-specific video display and dynamic video page

Create a new React project:
- Open terminal and run npm create vite@latest
- Name the project youtube-clone
- Select React and JavaScript
- Open the project in VS Code
Install necessary packages:
- npm install react-router-dom moment
Clean the default project setup:
- Clear app.jsx, delete app.css, and clear index.css
- Update title in index.html to YouTube Clone
- Delete react.svg from the assets folder
Add project assets:
- Copy images and icons to the assets folder

Create folders under src:
- pages: Contains Home and Video Player pages
- components: Contains Navbar, Sidebar, Feed, and PlayVideo components
File setup for Home and Video Player pages:
- home.jsx and home.css
- video.jsx and video.css

Create Navbar component file:
- Import images and icons
- Add HTML structure with search box and icons
- Add and import CSS for styling
- Make Navbar responsive for smaller screens

Create Sidebar component file:
- Import images for categories
- Add HTML structure for sidebar links and subscribed channels
- Add and import CSS for styling
- Implement dynamic class names for responsive design

Create Feed component file:
- Import thumbnails
- Add HTML structure for video cards
- Fetch video data using YouTube Data API
- Add CSS for styling

Setup routing in main.jsx and app.jsx
- Use BrowserRouter and Routes to define Home and Video Player routes

Create a file data.js to store the YouTube Data API key
Fetch video list and details in feed.jsx using the API URL and convert data into desired format
Paginate through video details and display on screen
Implement category-specific video fetching and display

Create PlayVideo component
- Fetch and display video using video ID and category ID from the URL
- Display video details, likes, description, and comments using the API data
Create Recommended component to display related videos
- Fetch related videos based on category ID

Make the project fully responsive using CSS media queries
- Adjust layouts for smaller screens
- Optimize CSS for Navbar, Sidebar, Home, and Video Player pages