Programming WebRTC

Configuring a Server to Host Your WebRTC App

As promised in this book’s opening chapters, you’ve not had to do any server-side work to speak of. Whenever you’ve run npm start or npm start:demos, however, you’ve been using a small bundle of server-side scripts in development. They are minimal, but let’s talk about them briefly, so there’s a little less mystery surrounding this chapter’s sudden talk of server-side scripting.

Understanding Your App’s Server Requirements

There are a few files to check out in the deploy/ directory. The first is the package.json file, which includes four dependencies:

"dependencies": {
  "express": "^4.18.2",
  "http-errors": "~1.6",
  "morgan": "~1.9",
  "socket.io": "^4.6.1"
}

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