Signalling Server Implementation

Starting the Signalling Server

You need to run the following commands for first time execution to install the required packages. yarn or npm install Then you need to start the server using yarn start or npm start

Now you have the signalling server up and running on port :3000 you can edit this port from the index.js file in the repository.

How can you get a Secure Connection link to your local Signalling server?

You can use tools like ngrok to get a secure like to your local server. To run the server with ngrok, start the signalling server and run the following commands: ngrok http 3000 This command will give you a secure link to you local server.

ngrok                                                                                                                                                                                        (Ctrl+C to quit)
                                                                                                                                                                                                             
Send your ngrok traffic logs to Datadog: https://ngrok.com/blog-post/datadog-logs                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                                                             
Session Status                online                                                                                                                                                                         
Account                       username@mail.com (Plan: Free)                                                                                                                                   
Version                       3.3.1                                                                                                                                                                          
Region                        India (in)                                                                                                                                                                     
Latency                       -                                                                                                                                                                              
Web Interface                 http://127.0.0.1:4040                                                                                                                                                          
Forwarding                    https://c76d-58-65-176-42.ngrok-free.app -> http://localhost:3000                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                                                             
Connections                   ttl     opn     rt1     rt5     p50     p90                                                                                                                                    
                              0       0       0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00  

The link https://c76d-58-65-176-42.ngrok-free.app is a secure endpoint and can be use with the prefix of wss:// instead of https:// as it is a WebSocket based server.