Video Chat App

Table of Contents

1. About The Project
   • Built With
   • Disclaimer
2. Getting Started
   • Installation
3. Architecutre
4. Flow Diagram
5. Features
6. Contact

About The Project

This is a video conferencing application that is used to host virtual meetings, chats and audio conferencing. The major tech stacks used are PeerJS, socket.io, Google Firebase and Express. Website: https://bit.ly/video-chat-

Built With

Disclaimer

P2P connection will not be established over different networks by just cloning this repository.
Turn Server should also be implemented to build a P2P Connection over different networks.
Otherwise, you may run the application on Local Network. 

You will need to integrate firebase database with the application to store chat for future use.

(Steps mentioned in Installation section)

Getting Started

Prerequisites

This is an example of how to list things you need to use the software and how to install them.

• npm

  npm install npm@latest -g

• dotenv: "^10.0.0"
• ejs: "^3.1.6",
• express: "^4.17.1",
• express-session: "^1.17.2",
• firebase: "^8.7.1",
• peer: "^0.6.1",
• peerjs: "^1.3.2",
• socket.io: "^4.1.2",
• uuid : "^8.3.2"

Installation

1. Get a free API Key at https://firebase.google.com/

2. Setup a realtime database on firebase google. Refer This

3. Setup a TURN server. Refer This

4. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/your_username_/Project-Name.git

5. Install NPM packages

   npm install

6. Enter your API in .env file. Refer .env_sample

   API_KEY = 'ENTER YOUR API';

7. Add your TURN SERVER Credentials (Lines 51-55) in script.js

8. While hosting on Heroku, Uncomment Lines 39-56 in script.js

9. To run the application on Local Host

   • Open the command prompt from your project directory and run the command npm start.
   • Go to your browser and type http://localhost:3030/ in the address bar.

Architecture Diagram

Flow Diagram

Features

Video On/Off	Audio On/Off
Chat	Show Participants
Quick Message	Send Emoji
Raise Hand	Pin Video
Copy Meet Code	End Call

Contact

Pulkit Changoiwala - @pulkitchangoiwala - changoiw@iitg.ac.in

Project Link: https://github.com/PulkitChangoiwala/Video_Chat_App