Positioning WebRTC as a Front-End Technology
With an imposing name like WebRTC: Real-Time Communication in Browsers, the WebRTC specification sure sounds like a newfangled server-based technology.[20] As web developers, especially front-end developers, we’ve simply never seen browsers do much else than talk to a server, whether to make requests for static HTML pages, process data submitted from a form, or asynchronously request resources with the Fetch API. The traditional web has always been a 100 percent server-backed technology. Front-end developers are left to mush their faces against the windowpane to the server room, where all the cool new toys often are.
They’re not wrong to feel that way: the web has always relied on the client-server ...
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