Crunchyroll Anime/Video Streaming Platform

🔗 Live Demo: Crunchyroll Anime Streaming
🔗 Reference: Crunchyroll

A high-performance anime streaming platform inspired by Crunchyroll, offering ad-free streaming, HLS video playback, efficient content management, and optimized data fetching.

🚀 About

This platform provides seamless anime streaming with a fully custom HLS-compatible player, efficient MongoDB pipelines, and high-throughput video processing. The system is designed with Next.js 15, Nest.js, Kafka, and MongoDB to ensure scalability, speed, and smooth user experience.

• Frontend (Next.js 15) – Handles UI, data fetching, and rendering.
• Backend (Nest.js CMS) – Manages content creation, transcoding, and API services.
• HLS Streaming – Optimized video playback with a fully custom player.
• Kafka & ffmpeg – Asynchronous video transcoding and media uploads.
• MongoDB – Stores user data, content metadata, and recommendations.
• Caching & Location-Based Recommendations – Faster loading and personalized content.

🔥 Features

• Ad-Free Streaming – Enjoy uninterrupted anime playback.
• HLS-Compatible Player – Fully custom HLS.js-based video player.
• High-Performance MongoDB Pipelines – Efficient queries for fast data retrieval.
• Location-Based Recommendations – Personalized content based on user region.
• Concurrent Uploads & API Retry Mechanisms – Optimized throughput for media handling.
• CMS with Nest.js – Backend manages video transcoding & content workflows.

🛠 Tech Stack

• Frontend: Next.js 15, Tailwind CSS, HLS.js
• Backend: Nest.js, MongoDB, Kafka, ffmpeg
• Storage: Supabase (S3 Bucket) for media & static assets
• Streaming: HLS (HTTP Live Streaming)
• Processing: Kafka-powered asynchronous media transcoding & uploads

🏗 System Design Overview

• Frontend (Next.js 15) – Handles UI rendering, API integration, and SEO optimization.
• Backend (Nest.js CMS) – Content management, video processing, and transcoding.
• Kafka Message Queue – Asynchronous media uploads & processing with ffmpeg.
• MongoDB – Efficient data storage & aggregation pipelines.
• Supabase S3 Storage – Secure static asset & media storage.

🎯 Planned Features

• User Authentication – Secure sign-up & login.
• User Profiles – Watchlists & personalization.
• Enhanced Caching – Faster data fetching & performance.

📌 Status

✅ Frontend: Fully Completed
⚙️ Backend: High-Performance CMS with Video Transcoding & Uploads
🛠 Planned Features: Authentication & User Profile Management

Stay tuned for updates! 🚀