philnash / Video Chat
An example of setting up basic video chat with WebRTC, node.js and Twilio
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Video Chat
A simple video chat between two clients as an example of how to connect two browsers via WebRTC using Twilio STUN/TURN infrastructure.
Read the blog post to see how to build this: Getting Started with WebRTC using Node.js, Socket.io and Twilio’s NAT Traversal Service.
Quick start
- Clone this repo
git clone https://github.com/philnash/video-chat.git
cd video-chat
- Install dependencies
npm install
- Create a
.env
file copying.env.template
. Fill in yourAccount SID
andAuth Token
from your Twilio console - Start the server
npm start
- Open two browsers on your laptop and point them
localhost:3000
. If you want to use a client on another computer/mobile, make sure you publish your server on an HTTPS connection (otherwise the camera may not work). You can use a service like ngrok for that. - Click on the "Get Video" button on both browsers
- Click on button "Call" on one of the browser, to establish the video call
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