How to link from docs to videos?

[willmcgugan]

@rodrigogiraoserrao has done a fantastic job with instructional videos on our YT channel.

I wonder if we can promote these via the docs more. A simple link may go overlooked, so I'm wondering if there is a tasteful way of pushing the YT a bit more. Something short of embedding a video player.

Perhaps a thumbnail in a callout?

This is a meta issue to request suggestions for how this should be done (add to comments).

[TomJGooding]

Something short of embedding a video player.

Perhaps a thumbnail in a callout?

Why not embed the video, especially as a thumbnail would take up a similar amount of space anyway?

Example tutorial.md diff

diff --git a/docs/tutorial.md b/docs/tutorial.md
index ce7ed15d..bf343e8e 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial.md
@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ By the end of this page you should have a solid understanding of app development
 
 ## Video series
 
-This tutorial has an accompanying [video series](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHhDR_Q5Me1MxO4LmfzMNNQyKfwa275Qe) which covers the same content.
+This tutorial has an accompanying [video series](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHhDR_Q5Me1MxO4LmfzMNNQyKfwa275Qe) which covers the same content:
+
+[![A YouTube video link](https://img.youtube.com/vi/kpOBRI56GXM/0.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHhDR_Q5Me1MxO4LmfzMNNQyKfwa275Qe)
 
 ## Stopwatch Application

[rodrigogiraoserrao]

Tom's suggestion makes sense in places like the stopwatch tutorial where there's almost a 1:1 correspondence between the written docs and the videos.
In many other places, I've just recorded random bits & bobs...

Other things we can do:

• add a fairly discrete “Watch our short video about this” next to topics covered in videos as well;
• for the reactivity guide (and possibly other guides in the future) make sure the topic playlist covers everything and then add a similar thumbnail to the playlist saying “This guide has an accompanying video series here:”

(For reference, here's the textual reactivity playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHhDR_Q5Me1POyvjxq0lupFbrUrJeWTAY)