YouTube

Overview

A YouTube-inspired video platform clone rebuilding the core browsing and playback experience with React, focused on matching real-world UI patterns and smooth client-side interactions.

Key Features

• •Custom video player with playback controls
• •Responsive video grid with infinite scroll
• •Category-based filtering and search
• •Comment section with nested replies
• •Channel pages with subscriber-style layout
• •Dark/light theme support

Why I built this

• •To understand how large-scale video platforms structure their UI at a component level
• •To practice building complex, stateful React interfaces without over-engineering
• •To sharpen skills in responsive grid layouts and infinite-scroll data fetching

Impact

• •Delivered a fully responsive interface that closely mirrors real platform UX
• •Strengthened component architecture and state management practices
• •Became a reference project for later, more complex builds