Video Web Application

Video Web App is a simple WebRTC application to showcase the usage of socket.io and peerjs to broadcast video between client and server.

Build

git clone https://github.com/vicentefb/Video-Chat-App.git
Backend
From root: npm run start
Frontend
cd client
npm install
npm run start

Go to localhost:3000

Tech

• ReactJS for structuring and styling the front end
• node.js - evented I/O for the backend
• Express - fast node.js network app framework
• Socket.io - to enable real-time, bi-directional communication between web clients and servers
• PeerJS - WebRTC wrapper
• Heroku - cloud platform to run server side

Folder structure

.
├── client                  # Contains the front-end
├── .gitignore                  
├── README.md
├── package-lock.json
├── package.json
└── index.js                # handles the backend socket event configuration