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Getting Started with WebRTC

By : Rob Manson
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Getting Started with WebRTC

By: Rob Manson

Overview of this book

WebRTC delivers web-based real-time communication and is set to revolutionize our view of what the Web really is. Streaming audio and video from browser to browser, as well as opening raw access to the camera and microphone, is already creating a whole new dynamic web. WebRTC also introduces real-time data channels that will allow interaction with dynamic data feeds from sensors and other devices. This really is a great time to be a web developer! Getting Started with WebRTC provides all of the practical information you need to quickly understand what WebRTC is, how it works, and how you can add it to your own web applications. It includes clear working examples designed to help you get started building your own WebRTC-enabled applications right away. Getting Started with WebRTC will guide you through the process of creating your own WebRTC application that can be applied in a number of different real-world situations, using well documented and clearly explained code examples. You will learn how to quickly and easily create a practical peer-to-peer video chat application, an audio only call option, and how a Web-Socket-based signaling server can also be used to enable real-time text-based chat. You will also be shown how this same server and application structure can easily be extended to include simple drag-and-drop file sharing with transfer updates and thumbnail previews.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Getting Started with WebRTC
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The opportunity for managers


Communication is the lifeblood of any modern team, and WebRTC is reshaping the communication landscape all around us. This is creating all kinds of new opportunities, and the managers that help their teams take advantage of this new sensor driven real-time web will be able achieve more, and advance their personal careers. Many teams have struggled to adapt to the new world of social media. Now, WebRTC is going to make the world inside your team even more like a rich social media space and the managers that adapt to this will be the leaders of tomorrow.

If you focus on the social, cultural, and interpersonal aspects of this new environment, and work to create a team communication application that seamlessly connects your team members, then you will be able to create a whole new generation of highly performing teams.

To start with, don't focus on building all kinds of features and functionality into the application. It is easy to get distracted by focusing on the...