Why is a YouTube clone good for machine coding practice?
Because it covers the range of skills a machine coding interview tests: building a working UI, routing, fetching, nested data, and real-time updates, all under time pressure if you time yourself.
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Build a homepage with a video grid and sidebar filters, a search, a dynamic watch page with a player and comments, a nested comments section, and a live chat for live streams. Use local state for most things and Context or Redux for shared state.
Routing with dynamic routes, fetching from an API, nested data with the comments section, real-time updates with the live chat, and state management. It is a comprehensive project that covers most real frontend skills.
Build a recursive Comment component that renders replies as nested Comment components. Store nested data in a tree structure, and manage state for adding new comments and replies. This teaches recursive rendering.
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