In this chapter, we completely upgraded the play media page on MERN Mediastream. We first added custom media player controls, utilizing options available in the ReactPlayer component. Then, we incorporated the autoplay functionality for a related media playlist, after retrieving the related media from the database. Finally, we made the media details search-engine-readable by injecting data from the server when the view is rendered on the server.
You can apply the techniques explored in this chapter to build the play media page, to compose and build your own complex user interface with React components that are interdependent, and to add SSR with data for views that need to be SEO-friendly in your applications.
We have now explored advanced capabilities, such as streaming and SEO, with the MERN stack technologies. In the next two chapters, we will test the potential of...