Mobile & Streaming

Netflix Application

Cloning Project of a Popular Video Streaming Application

Personal Project

3 Months • 2025

Completed

Project Overview

A cloning project of the popular video streaming service, Netflix. This project replicates the core user experience of browsing, searching, and watching video content, built using Flutter for the mobile application.

This project aims to understand and implement the core architecture of a large-scale streaming application. The main focus is on developing a responsive UI/UX similar to the original app using Flutter. Movie and TV show data are fetched from an external API (such as TMDB), managed by a Node.js backend that also handles authentication and user data, such as watchlists (My List).

Technologies Used

Flutter

Node.js

MongoDB

TMDB API

Challenges

Building a complex and responsive UI like Netflix using Flutter
Managing large application state, including movie data and user status (e.g., watchlist)
Efficiently integrating an external API (like TMDB) for content data

Solutions

Used a modular Flutter widget architecture to build each UI component separately
Applied a state management solution (such as BLoC) to handle data across the app
Created a Node.js backend service to act as an intermediary between the app and TMDB API, as well as manage user data
Optimized API calls and image caching for a smooth browsing experience