Understanding WebRTC

Written by jorgeortega | Published 2020/08/18
Tech Story Tags: webrtc | html5 | javascript | communication | video-streaming | streaming | realtime | api

TLDR WebRTC stands for Web Real Time Communication. It supports video, voice, and generic data to be sent between peers. The API is actually not so big and complicated as it sounds. The MDN website is, as always, very complete https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/WebRTC.org. In webrtc.org we can find many useful samples of the API. In a basic call, we are going to establish a connection between two peers, adding each other ICECandidates, set local audio/video tracks, create a connection offer from peer 1 and create an answer.via the TL;DR App

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Written by jorgeortega | Software Engineer from Costa Rica, living in Berlin
Published by HackerNoon on 2020/08/18