React JS Example- How To Build Responsive Video And Audio Player Tutorial

React JS Video And Audio Player Tutorial

Friends, nowadays, it’s very common to see video players on almost every website like Facebook, Instagram or Youtube. These websites have their own video players.

How about thinking to have a video player of your own website? Don’t worry. It’s not a big deal if you are planning to develop an app or website of your own using React. You may find it a bit tricky to embed a video player in React but believe me, it is not rocket science.

 

Throughout this tutorial, we will learn how to create a responsive video player in React JS application using the Reactjs Media package and also how to create a responsive audio player from scratch. The reactjs-media library allows you to make a simple responsive video player which works best on every device size.

 

How To Create Video/Audio Player In React JS

Below-given are the steps to be followed:

• Create React Project

• Install React JS Media Package

• Create Component File

• Make Responsive Video Player Component

• Create Audio Player

• Update App JS File

• Run Development Server

Step 1- Create react Project

The very first step is quite simple in which we have to create the React app by using the following command. We may also download the latest version of React application:

npx create-react-app react-blog

 

So, further, we move into the project folder:

cd react-blog

 

Step 2- Install React JS Media Package

In the second step, we will install the React js media package using the below command:

npm install reactjs-media

 

Step 3- Create Component File

Various functionalities can be arranged in components in React, consequently, we have to create a components/ folder inside the react project.

Inside the app folder, we will create a new MediaComponent.js file and insert the following code:

import React, { Component } from "react";

class MediaComponent extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <div> </div>
    );
  }
}

export default MediaComponent;

 

Step 4- Make Video Player Component

Further, we have to open the components/MediaComponent.js file and insert the following code to create the responsive video player in React:

import React, { Component } from "react";
import { ReactVideo } from "reactjs-media";


class MediaComponent extends Component {
  
  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        <ReactVideo
            src='https://www.example.com/myvideo.mp4'
            poster='/poster.png'
            primaryColor="red"
            autoPlay
        />
      </div>
    );
  }

}

export default MediaComponent;

 

Step 5- Create Audio Player

We can import the ReactAudio Module from reactjs-media package, and use ReactAudio directive pass the audio file and poster in react audio component:

import React, { Component } from "react";
import { ReactAudio } from "reactjs-media";


class MediaComponent extends Component {
  
  render() {
    return (
      <div>
         <ReactAudio
              src="/your_audio_file.mp4"
              poster="/your_poster_file.png"
          />
      </div>
    );
  }

}

export default MediaComponent;

 

Step 6- Update App JS File

In this step, we need to register the media player component into the primary App.js file:

import React from 'react';
import './App.css';

import MediaComponent from './components/MediaComponent';

function App() {
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <MediaComponent />
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

 

Step 7- Run Development Server

So, here we head over to the command prompt, type the given command on the terminal, hit enter and run the development server:

npm start

 

Summary

So friends, in this guide, we have learned to create a video player component in React js application and also explored how to use react js media plugin to develop the custom video player.

Hope that you have found the whole tutorial quite easy to implement.

 

Thanks