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Zipcall - Decentralized Video Chat

https://zipcall.io

Decentralized video chat platform powered by WebRTC using Twilio STUN/TURN infrastructure. Zipcall provides video quality and latency simply not available with traditional technology.

Features

Screen sharing
Group call with up to 4 peers
Picture in picture
Live captions
Text chat
Auto-scaling video quality
No download required, entirely browser based
Direct peer to peer connection ensures lowest latency
No SFU servers, group calls use mesh networks
Single use disposable chat rooms

Quick start

You will need to have Node.js installed, this project has been tested with Node version 10.X and 12.X
Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/ianramzy/decentralized-video-chat
cd decentralized-video-chat

Set up credentials

Rename .env.template to .env
Sign up for free twilio account https://www.twilio.com/login
Get your Account SID and Auth Token from the Twillio console
Fill in your credentials in the .env file

Install dependencies

npm install

Start the server

npm start

Open localhost:3000 in browser
If you want to use a client on another computer/network, make sure you publish your server on an HTTPS connection. You can use a service like ngrok for that.

Contributing

Pull Requests are welcome!

Please run prettier on all of your PRs before submitting, this can be done with prettier --write in the project directory

For communication we use Gitter Chat which can be found here: