Building a scalable, multi-platform OTT app for India
summary
An ad‑supported MiniTV app for India that serves TV, mobile and web devices uses a thin client with middleware‑driven rendering to keep business logic off devices, a registry + dynamic imports for selective bundling per platform (Fire TV variant vs mobile), and image‑optimization: server transforms, bucketed resolutions and DPR‑aware assets served via CDN. Six practical scaling rules (separation of concerns, HOCs, compound components, selective bundling, image strategies, testing) are implemented and reduce duplicate code and load time across platforms.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:10OTT landscape in India
- 3:39Mini TV architecture overview
- 5:06Frontend scalability principles
- 6:33Client architecture basics
- 7:36Thinking client architecture
- 9:46Higher order components
- 10:53Compound components
- 12:35Selective bundling
- 14:23Image optimization techniques
- 16:51Scaling through experimentation
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