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Getting Started with WebRTC

By : Rob Manson
Book Image

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

Overall application architecture


The architecture for this type of application or platform generally consists of seven key elements that work together to deliver the overall experience:

  • Managers

  • Team members

  • WebRTC capable browser

  • New and existing web applications

  • Signaling server

  • TURN server

  • Messaging server

Let's look at each of these elements in more detail.

Managers

These are the people that are responsible for bringing the team members together and driving them to achieve a specific set of goals. Managers need to have control of these team applications and be able to add and remove members easily.

They will also want to be able to see information about the activity of each member, and in a business context ideally, also be able to tie these back to key performance indicators so that they can track and manage each individual.

In both a commercial and a non-commercial context, the levels of participation from each of the team members may also be available for all to see, because online teams tend...