[Twitch Clone] - Next Generation Streaming Platform

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Key Features

• 📡 Advanced Streaming Protocols: Utilizes RTMP and WHIP for high-quality streaming.
• 🌍 Efficient Ingress Generation: Streamlines the process of generating ingress for seamless streaming.
• 🔗 Integrations with Streaming Software: Connects seamlessly with OBS and other popular streaming applications using Next.js.
• 🔐 Robust Authentication System: Ensures secure access and user authentication.
• 📷 Thumbnail Upload Feature: Allows easy upload of stream thumbnails for customization.
• 👀 Live Viewer Count: Displays the number of live viewers in real-time.
• 🚦 Dynamic Live Statuses: Keeps viewers updated with live statuses.
• 💬 Real-Time Chat: Engages audiences with a real-time chat feature using sockets.
• 🎨 Color-Coded Chat: Assigns a unique color to each viewer in the chat for easy identification.
• 👥 Interactive Following System: Enables users to follow their favorite streamers.
• 🚫 Comprehensive Blocking System: Offers a blocking mechanism for user safety and moderation.
• 👢 Real-Time Participant Management: Allows streamers to kick participants during live streams.
• 🎛️ Streamer Dashboard: Provides a dedicated dashboard for streamers and content creators.
• 🐢 Slow Chat Mode: Manages chat activity with a slow chat option.
• 🔒 Followers-Only Chat Mode: Enables exclusive chat access for followers.
• 📴 Chat Control: Grants the ability to enable/disable chat during streams.
• 🔽 Flexible Layout: Features a collapsible layout with options like theatre mode.
• 📚 Sidebar with Following & Recommendations: Includes a sidebar for easy access to followed streams and recommendations.
• 🏠 Home Page with Stream Recommendations: Curates a home page recommending streams, prioritizing live content.
• 🔍 Customizable Search Results Page: Offers a distinct layout for search results.
• 🔄 Webhooks Integration: Syncs user and live status information with the database using webhooks.
• 🤝 Community Engagement: Encourages interaction through a dedicated community tab.
• 🌈 Aesthetic Design: Boasts a visually appealing and user-friendly interface.
• ⚡ High-Performance Application: Delivers a blazing fast user experience.
• 📄 Server-Side Rendering (SSR): Implements SSR for improved performance and SEO.
• 🗺️ Organized Routing & Layouts: Features grouped routes and layouts for better navigation.
• 🗃️ MySQL Database: Utilizes MySQL for reliable data management.
• 🚀 Streamlined Deployment: Simplifies the deployment process for quick and easy setup.

Getting Started

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Usage

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Documentation

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Commit Message Guidelines

• feat: Introduce a new feature.
• fix: Patches a bug in your codebase (bugfix or hotfix).
• build: Changes that affect the build system or external dependencies.
• chore: Updates dependencies and does not relate to fix or feat and does not modify src or test files.
• ci: Changes that affect the continuous integration process.
• docs: Updates the documentation or introduce documentation.
• style: Updates the formatting of code; remove white spaces, add missing spaces, remove unnecessary newlines.
• refactor: Reactors code segments to optimize readability without changing behavior.
• perf: Improve performance.
• test: Add/remove/update tests.
• revert: Reverts one or many previous commits. ``` Good: perf: optimize loading of items on landing page feat: send an email to the customer when a product is shipped fix: add the correct company name to the footer and replacing the dummy text revert: revert a previously introduced bug in items retrieving from database

Bad: optimize landing page send email oops I think I fixed it this time?

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## Contributing

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## Versioning

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## Authors and Acknowledgment

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## License

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## FAQ

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## Support

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## Roadmap

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## Contact

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