Terminologies
Before we get into WebRTC and PeerJS, you need to know the meaning of some terms that we are going to use. These terms are discussed in the following sections.
Stream
A stream is a sequence of any kind of data that is made available over time. A stream object represents a stream. Usually, an event handler or callback is attached to the stream object, which is invoked whenever new data is available.
A media stream is a stream whose data is either audio or video. Similarly, a media source is a physical device, file, or something that provides data that is audio or video. A media consumer is also a physical device, API, or something that uses media stream.
Note
WebRTC allows us to retrieve a media stream of physical media sources, such as microphones, webcams, screens, and so on. We will discuss more about it later in this chapter.
Peer-to-peer network model
Peer-to-peer model is the opposite of the client-server model. In the client-server model, the server provides resources to the...
