Creating a Screen Sharing Application With JavaScript

Have you ever wondered how hard or easy it would be to create your own screen-sharing application? In this article, I will show you how to create a screen-sharing application with JavaScript via the Screen Capture API and its technique. This will allow us to capture half or all of a screen and share it with other users throughout a WebRTC conference session. getDisplayMedia() Initial Steps: Create a new project in your favorite IDE. Setup HTML boilerplate code Add JavaScript code Deploy Live server Create a new project in your favorite IDE I'm going to be using VScode for this tutorial. Feel free to use the editor of your choice. Let's go ahead and set up our HTML code. HTML: Screen Sharing Start Screen Sharing Stop Start your live server and open the index.html file in your browser. You should see a page that looks like this: JavaScript: Next, we need to add some JavaScript code to our index.html file. Go ahead and add your script tags to the body section of your index.html file and add the following code: const videoElem = document.getElementById("video"); const startElem = document.getElementById("start"); const stopElem = document.getElementById("stop"); // Options for getDisplayMedia() var displayMediaOptions = { video: { cursor: "always", height: 1000, width: 1200 }, audio: false }; // Set event listeners for the start and stop buttons startElem.addEventListener("click", function (evt) { startCapture(); }, false); // Stop the screen capture stopElem.addEventListener("click", function (evt) { stopCapture(); }, false); // Start the screen capture async function startCapture() { try { videoElem.srcObject = await navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia(displayMediaOptions); dumpOptionsInfo(); } catch (err) { // Handle error console.error("Error: " + err); } } // Stop the stream function stopCapture(evt) { let tracks = videoElem.srcObject.getTracks(); tracks.forEach(track => track.stop()); videoElem.srcObject = null; } // Dump the available media track capabilities to the console function dumpOptionsInfo() { const videoTrack = videoElem.srcObject.getVideoTracks()[0]; console.info("Track settings:"); console.info(JSON.stringify(videoTrack.getSettings(), null, 2)); console.info("Track constraints:"); console.info(JSON.stringify(videoTrack.getConstraints(), null, 2)); } Test the Application Now we can go ahead and test our application. Open the index.html file in your browser and click on the start button to initialize the screen capture. Click on a screen, and you should see the video stream of the screen you clicked on. You can also click on the stop button to stop the screen capture. Full Code: Screen Sharing Start Screen Sharing Stop const videoElem = document.getElementById("video"); const startElem = document.getElementById("start"); const stopElem = document.getElementById("stop"); // Options for getDisplayMedia() var displayMediaOptions = { video: { cursor: "always", height: 1000, width: 1200 }, audio: false }; // Set event listeners for the start and stop buttons startElem.addEventListener("click", function (evt) { startCapture(); }, false); stopElem.addEventListener("click", function (evt) { stopCapture(); }, false); async function startCapture() { try { videoElem.srcObject = await navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia(displayMediaOptions); dumpOptionsInfo(); } catch (err) { console.error("Error: " + err); } } function stopCapture(evt) { let tracks = videoElem.srcObject.getTracks(); tracks.forEach(track => track.stop()); videoElem.srcObject = null; } function dumpOptionsInfo() { const videoTrack = videoElem.srcObject.getVideoTracks()[0]; console.info("Track settings:"); console.info(JSON.stringify(videoTrack.getSettings(), null, 2)); console.info("Track constraints:"); console.info(JSON.stringify(videoTrack.getConstraints(), null, 2)); } Also Published Here

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