decentralized-video-chat/README.md

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 your Account SID and Auth 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