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Getting Started with WebRTC

You're reading from   Getting Started with WebRTC If you have basic HTML and JavaScript, you're well on the way to adding real time, peer-to-peer communication to your web applications using WebRTC. This book shows you how through a totally practical, structured course.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782166306
Length 114 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Getting Started with WebRTC
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. An Introduction to Web-based Real-Time Communication 2. A More Technical Introduction to Web-based Real-Time Communication FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating a Real-time Video Call 4. Creating an Audio Only Call 5. Adding Text-based Chat 6. Adding File Sharing 7. Example Application 1 – Education and E-learning 8. Example Application 2 – Team Communication Index

Setting up a simple WebRTC video call


The most common WebRTC example application involves setting up a video call between two separate users. Within a few seconds, you can easily see and talk to anyone, anywhere in the world who has one of the one billion or more WebRTC-enabled browsers. Let's take a detailed look at how this can be achieved and create the code we need as we go.

Throughout this book, some simple coding conventions will be used to aid communication and readability.

JavaScript APIs standardized by the W3C and other standards definition organizations will use the conventional camel case format (for example, standardFunctionCall()).

Functions and variables that have been defined for this book will use all lowercase strings and replace word breaks or white space with an underscore (for example, custom_function_call()).

The web and WebSocket server functionality in this example application will be implemented using JavaScript and Node.js. It is beyond the scope of this book to provide...

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