Learn to Create a ReactJs Video Player

Installing ReactJS

For the installation, any of the package managers can be used, such as npm or yarn.

First, you need to go to your terminal and then paste any of the commands given below (according to your package manager):

• For npm users : npm install reactjs-media
• For yarn users : yarn add reactjs-media

Now after installation, we can use it within our application. However, first, we need to import some of the components from this package. 

Components

Let us see the list of components that are needed to be imported from reactjs-media:

1. ReactVideo: For using a native video player.
2. ReactAudio: For using the native audio player.
3. FacebookPlayer: For using the videos from facebook or for using a facebook player.
4. Image: For using those images which are responsive and optimized.
5. YoutubePlayer: For using videos from Youtube or for using Youtube players.

Usage Procedure

Now let’s see how to use some of these imported components of reactjs-media:

1. Video Player

Let us first use the Video Player component. This component has been imported from the react-js media library, and the props are needed to be passed in this component. This is considered as a very native video player though it is very enhanced or improved, and a great User Interface is provided by this library.

Let us go through the code for using the Video Player component:

import React from "react";

import { ReactVideo } from "reactjs-media";

const App = () => {

    return (

        <div>

            <ReactVideo

                src="https://www.example.com/url_to_video.mp4"

                poster="https://www.example.com/posterImage.png"

                primaryColor="red"

                // other props can be passed by you

            />

        </div>

    );

};

export default App;

Though there are many more props to use with the library for which we need to check out their official documentation.

The output of the above code will show something like this:

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2. Audio Player

This component is mainly used for using audio players. The code implementation for the same is as follows:

import React from "react";

import { ReactAudio } from "reactjs-media";

const MyVideo = () => {

    return (

      <div className="container">

        <h1>Hello, audio player!</h1>

        <AudioPlayer

                 src="/audio.mp4"

                //poster="/poster.png"

                //other props can be passed by you 

       />

  </div>

    );

};    

The output of the above code will look like the following :

3. Youtube Player

This component is for using Youtube videos. The procedure for using this component is the easiest where we can pass the height and width of the video screen.

Now let us go through the code implementation for using this component:

const App = () => {

    return (

        <div>

            <YoutubePlayer

                src="https://youtu.be/UZCO5k1Nu70" // Required

                width={650}

                height={600}

            />

        </div>

    );

};

We can check out it’s documentation for using more props.

Your output should be something like the following :

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4. Facebook Player 

The Facebook player component is used for playing the videos from Facebook within our application body. 

The URL for the Facebook video is needed to be passed as the src props of the component. After passing the URL, the Facebook or Meta SDK (Software Development Kit) will be automatically loaded into our application body, and the video will be played.

Now let us go through the code implementation for this:

import React from "react";

import { FacebookPlayer } from "reactjs-media";

const MyVideo = () => {

    return (

        <>

            <FacebookPlayer

                src="https://www.facebook.com/facebook/videos/10153231379946729/"

                width={650}

                height={600}

            />

        </>

    );

}; 

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Conclusion

We hope you got a fair idea on the subject “video players using ReactJS”. As discussed in this article, library reactjs-media is really very helpful for creating native video players. Though there might be many other libraries, using this one is very easy. Click on the following link for official GitHub repository for reactjs-media.

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