Confab: An Video Chat Web App

A video chat web app built to explore peer to peer communication. Supports all the basic functionalitites like video streaming, mailing service, mute/unmute and video recording. A user can start a meeting, share the meeting link or the meeting code with other users to join.

Flow

1. Meeting Owner

   • User Login/Register
   • Create a meeting
   • Share meeting link or code

2. Other Participants

   • User Login/Register
   • Use link or code to join the meeting

Setup

0. Install node, npm

• Node & Npm: https://nodejs.org/en/

1. Package Installation:

yarn or npm i

2. Start Server

yarn start or npm run start

Routes

Endpoints	Types	Usage
/dashboard	GET	Dashboard
/login	POST, GET	Login Users
/signup	POST, GET	Signup Users
/generateRoomId	GET	Generate Room-ID
/checkRoomId?roomId=id	GET	Join Existing Room using Room-ID
/:roomId	GET	Meeting Room

Learnings

• REST API
• WebRTC API
• WebSockets: Full Deplex communication
• MySQL