Chapter 2: Build a WebRTC Video Chat Application with SimpleWebRTC
by Michael Wanyoike
With the advent of WebRTC and the increasing capacity of browsers to handle peer-to-peer communications in real time, it’s easier than ever to build real-time applications. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at SimpleWebRTC and how it can make our lives easier when implementing WebRTC. Throughout the chapter, we’ll be building a WebRTC video chat app with messaging features.
If you need a bit of a background regarding WebRTC and peer-to-peer communication, I recommend reading The Dawn of WebRTC and Introduction to the getUserMedia API.
What is SimpleWebRTC
Before we move on, it’s important that we understand the main tool that we’ll be using. SimpleWebRTC ...
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