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Show Lemmy: I built a free streaming site from scratch — vanilla JS, Node.js, MongoDB, $0/month stack (eli6movies.vercel.app)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by eli6@lemmy.world to c/webdev@lemmy.world

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Built ELI6 Movies as a side project to push how far a free-tier stack can go.

Tech:

Frontend: pure HTML/CSS/vanilla JS on Vercel (free)
Backend: Node.js/Express on Render (free)
DB: MongoDB Atlas M0 (free)
Metadata: TMDB API
Video: third-party embeds with smart server failover

Interesting bits:

Multi-server failover via postMessage detection
Episode email notifier
Tiered TMDB cache
i18n (EN/IT/RU)
Android TV spatial navigation

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Happy to answer questions about the architecture.

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[–] eli6@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

haha thats just whatever movie was on the homepage when i took the screenshot, it pulls the backdrop from tmdb. enjoy the backrooms lol

[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I feel like you didn’t read my full comment. I’d love to see you address the malware and popups.

[–] eli6@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

yeah you were right, my bad. embeds were calling window.open() and the sandbox let it through. removed allow-popups so they cant do that anymore, video still works fine. give it another try if you want

[–] eli6@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

i did read it — popup fix is in now. removed allow-popups from the iframe sandbox so embeds cant open new tabs. worth retrying if you want