Enable Audio in an Existing Chat Application

Using Nexmo Client SDK, we're going to enable audio to be able to speak to other members of the conversation inside the browser.

I don't want to read this whole thing, I just have a question!!!

Table of Contents

Prerequisites
The Demo Application
- Basic Installation
Super Simple Setup
- What Did That Script Do?!?
Next Steps
Enable Audio
I Don't Want To Run Your Script! (Running The CLI Steps Manually)
Code of Conduct
Contributing
License

Prerequisites

Node & NPM

Developed with Node 8 and NPM 6. Check if they're installed and are up to date.

node --version
npm --version

If node or npm are not installed, install them.

Nexmo CLI

To setup our application, we’re going to need the Nexmo CLI installed. We’ll install it using npm. It's important to install the beta, as this

npm install -g nexmo-cli@beta

Sign up for a free Nexmo account and set up the Nexmo CLI with your API key and secret which you can find on the settings page.

nexmo setup <your_api_key> <your_api_secret>

Git (Optional)

We’ll use git to clone our demo application from GitHub.

If you’re not comfortable with git commands, don’t worry, we’ll cover downloading and unzipping it instead.

Follow this guide to install git, if necessary.

The Demo Application

Basic Installation

git clone https://github.com/lukeoliff/nexmo-conversation.git

If you’re not comfortable with git commands or you’ve chosen not to install git, you can download the demo application as a zip file and unpack it locally.

Once cloned or unpacked, change into our new demo application directory.

cd nexmo-conversation

Install the npm dependencies.

npm install

Now, start the application.

npm start

The application should be running at the default address: http://127.0.0.1:8080.

You can log in with the default user “luke”, found in the config.js file.

You’ll notice we’re just mocking authentication here.

Super Simple Setup

This ships with a config script. Run that now to generate a new config.js file with your settings. If you don't want to run my script, skip ahead to the manual setup section found at the end of the README.

npm run setup-script

config.js gets updated to look more like this:

const USERS = {
  luke: 'eyJhbGciOiJIkpXVCJ9.eyJpYXQiOnt9fX19.EDHi1R61yh01oeZ9DYQ',
  mary: 'eyJhbGciOi234JXVCJ9.eyJpyXQiOjt9fX19.VqLdU97Fdb2ZiOfqmoQ',
}

const CONVERSATION_ID = 'CON-da9c1a6b-c2dc-4bdd-ac03-cc041ef03502'

What Did That Script Do?!?

So, behind the scenes, the script carries out the following steps.

Create a Nexmo application using the nexmo app:create command.
Create a Nexmo conversation using the nexmo conversation:create command.
Create both users using the nexmo user:create command.
Add both users to the Nexmo conversation with nexmo member:add.
Generate JWTs for both users to access the application.
Writes out the config to config.js.

Next Steps

Now, you can login as your two created users.

Enable Audio

Read my blog post on enabling audio in an existing chat application, or checkout/download enable-audio branch on this repository.

I Don't Want To Run Your Script! (Running The CLI Steps Manually)

Here are the steps to create the configuration file manually using our Nexmo CLI.

Create Application

Run the app:create CLI command. Returns an application ID.

nexmo app:create "Nexmo Demo Application" --capabilities=rtc --rtc-event-url=http://example.com --keyfile=private.key

Add the application ID returned from the command to a local environment variable.

# Application created: 32fwvc23f-6785j4th4-12ed2fg23

APPLICATION_ID=32fwvc23f-6785j4th4-12ed2fg23

Create Conversation

Run the conversation:create CLI command. Creates a conversation for users to join. Returns a conversation ID.

nexmo conversation:create display_name="Nexmo Demo Conversation"

Add the conversation ID to your local environment variables.

# Conversation created: CON-123135-3463f3452-6443y6346

CONVERSATION_ID=CON-123135-3463f3452-6443y6346

Create the First User

FIRST_USER_NAME=luke

Run the user:create CLI command. Creates a user to join the conversation. Returns a user ID.

nexmo user:create name=${FIRST_USER_NAME}

Add the returned user ID to your local environment variables.

# User created: USR-325vwef3-e325efwvw-3325ff234

FIRST_USER_ID=USR-325vwef3-e325efwvw-3325ff234

Add the first user to the conversation.

nexmo member:add ${CONVERSATION_ID} action=join channel='{"type":"app"}' user_id=${FIRST_USER_ID}

Generate the first users token for the config file.

FIRST_USER_JWT=${nexmo jwt:generate ./private.key sub=${FIRST_USER_NAME} exp=$(($(date +%s)+86400)) acl='{"paths":{"/v1/users/**":{},"/v1/conversations/**":{},"/v1/sessions/**":{},"/v1/devices/**":{},"/v1/image/**":{},"/v3/media/**":{},"/v1/applications/**":{},"/v1/push/**":{},"/v1/knocking/**":{}}}' application_id=${APPLICATION_ID}}

Create the Second User

SECOND_USER_NAME=alex

Run the user:create CLI command. Creates a user to join the conversation. Returns a user ID.

nexmo user:create name=${SECOND_USER_NAME}

Add the returned user ID to your local environment variables.

# User created: USR-325vwef3-e325efwvw-3325ff234

SECOND_USER_ID=USR-325vwef3-e325efwvw-3325ff234

Add the first user to the conversation.

nexmo member:add ${CONVERSATION_ID} action=join channel='{"type":"app"}' user_id=${SECOND_USER_ID}

Generate the first users token for the config file.

SECOND_USER_JWT=${nexmo jwt:generate ./private.key sub=${SECOND_USER_NAME} exp=$(($(date +%s)+86400)) acl='{"paths":{"/v1/users/**":{},"/v1/conversations/**":{},"/v1/sessions/**":{},"/v1/devices/**":{},"/v1/image/**":{},"/v3/media/**":{},"/v1/applications/**":{},"/v1/push/**":{},"/v1/knocking/**":{}}}' application_id=${APPLICATION_ID}}

Update the Config File

This will take the environment variables you created above, and output them to config.js

echo "const USERS = {
  ${FIRST_USER_NAME}: '${FIRST_USER_JWT}',
  ${SECOND_USER_NAME}: '${SECOND_USER_JWT}',
}
const CONVERSATION_ID = '${CONVERSATION_ID}'" > config.js

Code of Conduct

In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we strive to make participation in our project and our community a harassment-free experience for everyone. Please check out our Code of Conduct in full.

Contributing

We ❤️ contributions from everyone! Check out the Contributing Guidelines for more information.

License

This project is subject to the MIT License

I don't want to read this whole thing I just have a question!!!

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