WebRTC

tags : Web Development, Network Programming, Web Security, NAT

FAQ §

Web socket, Web RTC, SSE, what? §

• Videoconferencing or real-time messaging that doesn’t need a central source of truth: WebRTC
• Real-time collaboration with the need of a central source of truth and a small number of clients: Websockets
• Notification system that can stay quiet for a long time: Server-Sent Events, but beware of scaling the number of clients
• Anything else, like refreshing some components data, or a notification system with a big number of clients: polling

• See WebSockets vs Server-Sent-Events vs Long-Polling vs WebRTC vs WebTransport | RxDB - JavaScript Database

Basic stuff §

• previously browser based now has external prjects
• about:webrtc
• WebRTC API - Web APIs | MDN
• WebRTC is now a W3C and IETF standard
• WebRTC in the real world: STUN, TURN and signaling

Tools §

Others §

• PeerConnection Explainer

STUN/TURN and ICE §

• See NAT

pion §

• https://github.com/pion/awesome-pion
  • ppl have built ssh over webrtc
• https://github.com/pion
• https://github.com/pion/turn
• https://github.com/pion/offline-browser-communication

Others §

• https://github.com/coturn/coturn
• https://github.com/aiortc/aiortc
• https://github.com/ccding/go-stun

Bigger projects built on WebRTC §

[[https://mediasoup.org/documentation/overview/][mediasoup : Overview]] : Cutting Edge WebRTC Video Conferencing

peer-calls/peer-calls

WebRTC support being added to FFmpeg | Hacker News

OBS merges WebRTC support | Hacker News