The play media page
When visitors want to view specific media on MERN Mediastream, they will be taken to the play media page, which will contain the media details, a media player to stream the video, and a list of related media that can be played next.
Component structure
We will compose the component structure in the play media page in a way that allows the media data to trickle down to the inner components from the parent component. In this case, the PlayMedia
component will be the parent component, containing the RelatedMedia
component, and the Media
component with a nested MediaPlayer
component:
When individual media links are accessed, the PlayMedia
component will mount and retrieve the media data and related media list from the server. Then, the relevant data will be passed as props to the Media
and RelatedMedia
child components.
The RelatedMedia
component will link to a list of other related media, and clicking each will re-render the PlayMedia
component and inner components with the...