Daily fullscreen prebuilt UI demo

This demo highlights Daily's prebuilt UI, and how it can be expanded fullscreen in a website or app.

It works really well with our chrome extension demo. Although it works totally fine as a standalone app as well.

Check out a live version of the demo here.

Prerequisites

• Sign up for a Daily account and get API key from https://dashboard.daily.co/developers

Optional

• Click the Netlify deploy button below and follow the instructions

• Use the API key from above

• Install the chrome extension and add the url of your new Netlify site.

How the demo works

The frontend part of this demo renders our prebuilt UI in a fullscreen iframe and looks for two query parameters:

• room - the url of the call
• screenshare - whether to automatically start a screenshare

This means if you visit https://your-netlify-site.netlify.app/?room=https://mydomain.daily.co/roomname&screenshare=true it will join a meeting at the room url specified and prompt you to start a screenshare.

It also contains an API proxy that is meant to be deployed to Netlify that will create rooms for you. This allows a demo room to be automatically created whenever you load the app without a room parameter in the url. This also allows the chrome extension to create a unique room whenever you click "Create and launch call".

Running locally

1. Install dependencies: npm i.
2. Start dev server: npm run dev.

Next, you'll have two ways to connect to a room. You can use Netlify to access the Daily REST API: see the Netlify CLI instructions below. Using the Netlify proxy will allow you to create rooms on the fly.

If you prefer to test with a hardcoded room, make sure to create a room via the Daily dashboard. Then run npm run dev, and add your room's link to the room query parameter in your localhost URL: http://localhost:8080/?room=https://mydomain.daily.co/my-room

This will join the my-room room in your local environment.

Running using Netlify CLI

If you want access to the Daily REST API (using the proxy as specified in netlify.toml) as well as a more robust local dev environment, please do the following (in this project's directory):

1. Deploy to your Netlify account

2. Install the Netlify CLI npm i -g netlify-cli

3. Login to your account netlify login

4. Rename sample.env to .env and add your API key

5. Start the dev server netlify dev

Note: If the API proxy isn't working locally you may need to run netlify build first. This will put API key in the netlify.toml file, so make sure you don't commit this change.

Contributing and feedback

Let us know how experimenting with this demo goes! Feel free to reach out to us any time at help@daily.co.

What's next

Try customizing the landing page you see after leaving a meeting, or add support for other query parameters!