ovvn / p2p.chat

p2p video conferencing powered by WebRTC.

p2p.chat

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⚠️ Currently Unmaintained ⚠️ This was a hobby project that has not been worked on for some time. I would like to pick this up again in the future and overhaul how the app is architected, specifically peer discovery. I advise using https://meet.jit.si if you are looking for open source, professional video conferencing.

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p2p.chat is a peer-to-peer video conferencing application. Think of it as an free and open source appear.in alternative.

Architecture

p2p.chat uses WebRTC to power all video/data communication between peers. Each p2p.chat room creates a unique WebRTC swarm, using webrtc-swarm. This means all peers communicate to all other peers directly, without the need to pass data between any kind of centralized server. This ensures that all video data is end-to-end encrypted.

A signalhub is used as a signalling server to initially connect the peers together.

Development

Environment setup

  $ npm install

Running

Start the Webpack server (includes live reloading when you change files):

  $ npm start

Open http://localhost:3001 in a browser.

Bundling

  $ npm run bundle