In the frontend of the application, we can render the video file being streamed from MongoDB GridFS in a media player. A good option for a React-flavored media player is the ReactPlayer component, available as a node module, which can be customized as required. Providing the video stream as a source to a default ReactPlayer component will render with basic player controls, as shown in the following screenshot:
To start using ReactPlayer in our frontend code, we need to install the corresponding node module by running the following Yarn command from the command line:
yarn add react-player
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