Video Player and Gallery Using React and Tailwind

Last Updated : 23 Jul, 2025

A Video Player/Gallery is used to play a list of available videos on the browser, this helps the user to learn through visualization and is very helpful in reaching a large amount of audience effectively. Video Player is used generally by ed-tech companies to upload lectures online and provide demonstrations.

Preview of final output: Let us have a look at how the video player will look like:

Video Player and Gallery

Prerequisites:

Basic Feature of a Video Player and Gallery:

Video Player: This plays the video selected by the user
Video Gallery: This displays a list of videos to select from
Welcome Slide: It acts as an introduction to the page
Video Description: It is used to give additional information about the video

Advantages of Video Player and Gallery:

It encourages user engagement on the website
People can learn seamlessly
Easy navigation results in a better User Experience
Thumbnails provide a better way to understand the content of the video

Approach to Create a Video Player and Gallery:

Set up a basic react project and install the required dependencies.
Create the basic layout consisting of a Navbar and Welcome slide.
Style the components using Tailwind.
Pass the data dynamically in the components and render it on the screen.

Steps to Create React Application And Installing Module:

Step 1: Set up the project using the command

 npx create-react-app <<Project_Name>>

Step 2: Navigate to the folder using the command

cd <<Project_Name>>

Step 3: Install the required dependencies using the command

npm install -D tailwindcss

Step 4: Create the tailwind config file using the command

npx tailwindcss init

Step 5: Rewrite the tailwind.config.js file as folllows

/** @type {import('tailwindcss').Config} */
module.exports = {
  content: [
    "./src/**/*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}",
  ],
  theme: {
    extend: {},
  },
  plugins: [],
}

Project Structure:

Project Structure

The updated dependencies in package.json file will look like:

"dependencies": {
    "@testing-library/jest-dom": "^5.17.0",
    "@testing-library/react": "^13.4.0",
    "@testing-library/user-event": "^13.5.0",
    "react": "^18.2.0",
    "react-dom": "^18.2.0",
    "react-scripts": "5.0.1",
    "web-vitals": "^2.1.4"
  }
"devDependencies": {
    "tailwindcss": "^3.3.3"
}

Example: Write the following code in respective files:

App.js: This file imports the components and renders them on the screen
Data.js: This file contains the data to be rendered
Gallery.js: This component displays the list of videos
Navbar.js: This component displays the navbar screen
Video.js: This file plays the currently selected video
Welcome.js: This file displays the welcome screen

CSS

/* index.css */

@tailwind base;
@tailwind components;
@tailwind utilities;

body {
    margin: 0;
    font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', 'Roboto', 
          'Oxygen', 'Ubuntu', 'Cantarell', 'Fira Sans', 'Droid Sans', 
          'Helvetica Neue',
        sans-serif;
    -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
    -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
    height: 100vh;
}

code {
    font-family: source-code-pro, Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New',
        monospace;
}

JavaScript

// App.js

import "./App.css";
import Gallery from "./components/Gallery";
import Video from "./components/Video";
import Welcome from "./components/Welcome";
function App() {
    return (
        <div className="">
            <Welcome />
            <Gallery />
        </div>
    );
}

export default App;

JavaScript

// Gallery.js

import Video from "./Video";
import { useState } from "react";
import Data from "./Data";

export default function Gallery() {
    const [activeVid, setActiveVid] = useState(
"https://www.youtube.com/embed/0PfTU9JI6Lg?list=PLM68oyaqFM7TCNz4d5J_hxfFg8w41jTYJ"
    );
    const [actTitle, setActTitle] = useState("GFG POTD 1");
    const [description, setActiveDescription] = useState(
        "We will learn DFS of Graph in this problem"
    );
    const arr = Data;
    return (
        <div className="flex flex-row w-11/12 h-full pt-2">
            <Video
                link={activeVid}
                title={actTitle}
                description={description}
            />
            <div
                className="w-3/6 shadow-lg shadow-gray-600 
                           overflow-y-scroll flex flex-col 
                           mt-4 mr-20 border-slate-200 
                           border-2 rounded-lg"
                style={{ height: "min(38vw, 650px)" }}>
                <h3 className="text-2xl p-2 font-semibold">POTD-August</h3>
                <p className="px-2"> GFG Practice</p>
                {arr.map((e) => {
                    return (
                        <div
                            className="hover:bg-gray-300 p-2
                                       border-2 rounded-xl h-2/6 
                                       shadow-xl shadow-gray-300"
                            onClick={() => {
                                setActiveVid(e.link);
                                setActTitle(e.title);
                                setActiveDescription(e.description);
                            }}>
                            <img
                                className="w-1/2 h-20 my-4 
                                           mx-2 float-left"
                                src={e.img}
                            />
                            <p
                                className="ml-2 font-semibold 
                                          pt-6 pl-8 text-sm">
                                {e.title}
                            </p>
                            <p className="px-2">{e.description}</p>
                        </div>
                    );
                })}
            </div>
        </div>
    );
}

JavaScript

// Navbar.js

export default function Navbar() {
    return (
        <div>
            <nav classNameName="fixed w-full 
                                z-20 top-0 left-0">
                <div className="flex flex-wrap items-center 
                                justify-between mx-auto p-4">
                    <a href="https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/" 
                       className="flex items-center">
                        <img src=
"https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/gfg-gg-logo.svg" 
                             className="mr-2" 
                             alt="GFG Logo" />
                        <span className="self-center text-2xl font-semibold ">
                            GeeksforGeeks
                        </span>
                    </a>
                    <div className="items-center justify-between hidden 
                                    w-full md:flex md:w-auto md:order-1" 
                         id="navbar-sticky">
                        <ul className="flex flex-col p-4 
                                       md:p-0 font-medium 
                                       md:flex-row md:space-x-8">
                            <li>
                                <a href="#" 
                                   className="block py-2 pl-3 
                                              pr-4 text-white bg-blue-700 
                                              rounded md:bg-transparent 
                                              md:text-blue-700 md:p-0">
                                    Home
                                </a>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                                <a href="#" 
                                   className="block py-2 pl-3 
                                              pr-4 text-gray-900 rounded 
                                              hover:bg-gray-100 
                                              md:hover:bg-transparent 
                                              md:hover:text-blue-700 md:p-0">
                                    Posts
                                </a>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                                <a href="#" 
                                   className="block py-2 pl-3 
                                              pr-4 text-gray-900 rounded 
                                              hover:bg-gray-100 
                                              md:hover:bg-transparent 
                                              md:hover:text-blue-700 md:p-0">
                                    About us
                                </a>
                            </li>
                        </ul>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </nav>
        </div>
    )
}

JavaScript

// Welcome.js

import Navbar from "./Navbar";

export default function Welcome() {
    return (
        <div className="h-40 bg-gray-300 px-24">
            <Navbar />
            <h1
                className="pt-2 text-center text-slate-800 
                           font-semibold text-3xl">
                GeeksforGeeks Video Gallery
            </h1>
        </div>
    );
}

JavaScript

// Video.js

export default function Video(props) {
    return (
        <div className="w-screen flex h-screen flex-row mx-12">
            <div className="w-full h-2/3 ml-44 mt-4 px-2 pt-2 
                            rounded-xl border-2 border-slate-400">
                <iframe src={props.link} className="w-full h-5/6"></iframe>
                <div className="mt-1 h-1/3 text-left text-xl text-slate-600">
                    Title: {props.title}
                    <p className="text-lg pt-2">
                        Description:{props.description}
                    </p>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    );
}

JavaScript

// Data.js

import { useDeferredValue } from "react";

const Data = [
    {
        img: 
"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0PfTU9JI6Lg/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEbCKgBEF5IVfKriqkDDggBFQAAiEIYAXABwAEG&rs=AOn4CLBDx0FPXyl9asnEXeJeQRjcNOh6bQ",
        link: 
"https://www.youtube.com/embed/0PfTU9JI6Lg?list=PLM68oyaqFM7TCNz4d5J_hxfFg8w41jTYJ",
        title: "GFG POTD 1",
        description: "We will learn DFS of Graph in this problem",
    },
    {
        img: 
"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MxnpwpQA4I4/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEbCKgBEF5IVfKriqkDDggBFQAAiEIYAXABwAEG&rs=AOn4CLDtUunWidfJK9vnjZIBTg9AwWI6KA",
        link: 
"https://www.youtube.com/embed/MxnpwpQA4I4?list=PLM68oyaqFM7TCNz4d5J_hxfFg8w41jTYJ",
        title: "GFG POTD 2",
        description: "We will learn Shortest Source Path in this problem",
    },
    {
        img: 
"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OzWNBHxUYO0/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEbCKgBEF5IVfKriqkDDggBFQAAiEIYAXABwAEG&rs=AOn4CLCtPuRpTYFI24y71-DYiPaHcBmFfQ",
        link: 
"https://www.youtube.com/embed/OzWNBHxUYO0?list=PLM68oyaqFM7TCNz4d5J_hxfFg8w41jTYJ",
        title: "GFG POTD 3",
        description: "We will learn Shortest Path in this problem 3",
    },
    {
        img: 
"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/X05eictbWIg/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEbCKgBEF5IVfKriqkDDggBFQAAiEIYAXABwAEG&rs=AOn4CLC0L4vTEifv_Rd1g4uSmOERQB3BsQ",
        link: 
"https://www.youtube.com/embed/X05eictbWIg?list=PLM68oyaqFM7TCNz4d5J_hxfFg8w41jTYJ",
        title: "GFG POTD 4",
        description: "We will learn Reverse Stack in this problem",
    },
    {
        img: 
"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/T3sWA_ha1-w/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEbCKgBEF5IVfKriqkDDggBFQAAiEIYAXABwAEG&rs=AOn4CLAB2JYkK6qTJFba5fUayiUyoyuNXg",
        link: 
"https://www.youtube.com/embed/T3sWA_ha1-w?list=PLM68oyaqFM7TCNz4d5J_hxfFg8w41jTYJ",
        title: "GFG POTD 5",
        description: "We will learn Chocolate Distribution in this problem",
    },
    {
        img: 
"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9SSIbuQPamk/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEbCKgBEF5IVfKriqkDDggBFQAAiEIYAXABwAEG&rs=AOn4CLAdV3kVTVr-htccC52e_j6ydhdJkA",
        link: 
"https://www.youtube.com/embed/9SSIbuQPamk?list=PLM68oyaqFM7TCNz4d5J_hxfFg8w41jTYJ",
        title: "GFG POTD 6",
        description: "We will learn String Permutation in this problem",
    },
    {
        img: 
"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/E5Fz4-ylZ3E/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEbCKgBEF5IVfKriqkDDggBFQAAiEIYAXABwAEG&rs=AOn4CLALcFccFfnJhyjUqaqTs1ihK6sc9Q",
        link: 
"https://www.youtube.com/embed/E5Fz4-ylZ3E?list=PLM68oyaqFM7TCNz4d5J_hxfFg8w41jTYJ",
        title: "GFG POTD 7",
        description: "We will learn Solving Sudoku in this problem",
    },
    {
        img: 
"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dz_tDiMo_eA/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEbCKgBEF5IVfKriqkDDggBFQAAiEIYAXABwAEG&rs=AOn4CLD9tGVL8i8BzyQ4TT4DpcAxRNNTMA",
        link: 
"https://www.youtube.com/embed/dz_tDiMo_eA?list=PLM68oyaqFM7TCNz4d5J_hxfFg8w41jTYJ",
        title: "GFG POTD 8",
        description: "We will learn Fraction Pairs in this problem",
    },
];

export default Data;

Steps to Run the application:

Step 1: Type the following command in the terminal of your project directory

npm start

Output:

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