partykit / sketch-waterhole

Shared YouTube player

sketch-waterhole

Sometimes you just want to have a window open to a waterhole in the Namib Desert, watch the animals hang out, and chat with whoever else is there.

This is a single-serving website that presents this NamibiaCam YouTube live stream without any of the chrome and YouTube UI, and optional chat.

Come visit the waterhole!

Experimental!

This app was created during Matt's summer 2023 residency. The purpose is to experiment with multiplayer interactions, and simultaneously see what PartyKit can do. It's called a sketch because it's lightweight and quick, and because we learn something in making it.

What you'll find here

This micro-app is built with Remix and PartyKit meaning that it can be hosted entirely from PartyKit's servers. Check out the PartyKit x Remix starter template for how to do this.

Behind the scenes you'll see we're using react-player. This is a React component that wraps the YouTube player, and gives us a lot of control over how it behaves. So it's possible to share playback state and video URL between all clients, and make a shared jukebox -- a job for another time.

Development and deployment

There are two servers that need to be started for development:

• The Remix development server
• The PartyKit server

Both are started with one command:

npm run dev

Open up http://127.0.0.1:1999 to see the site.

Deployment

npm run deploy

If you don't already have a PartyKit account, you'll be prompted to create one during the deploy process.