peer-data

PeerData

PeerData is a library for bidirectional peer-to-peer transfers of arbitrary data using RTCDataChannel. Simple WebRTC wrapper providing data channel abstraction.

WebRTC needs a messaging service to set up and maintain a WebRTC call.

The sender and receiver RTCPeerConnections run in web pages on different devices, and we need a way for them to communicate metadata. For this, we use a signaling server: a server that can pass messages between WebRTC clients (peers).

PeerDataServer - An ready to use example of signaling server on Node using socket.io.

ABOUT

Contributors:

• Rafał Lorenz

Want to contribute ? Feel free to send pull requests!

Have problems, bugs, feature ideas? We are using the github issue tracker to manage them.

HOW TO USE

1. Documentation
2. Chat Example
3. React Chat Example
4. React Hook

Installation

$ npm install peer-data

Basic example

import PeerData from 'peer-data';

const servers = {
  iceServers: [
    {url: "stun:stun.1.google.com:19302"}
  ]
};

const constraints = {ordered: true};
const peerData = new PeerData(servers, constraints);
const room = peerData.connect('test-room');

room.on("participant", participant => {
  participant.on("message", payload => console.log("message", payload));

  participant.send('Hi mate! this is private message.');
})

For how to disconnect, close connection and handle errors please check Client documentation.

Advanced examples

• Client
• Signaling
• Data Channel
• Media Stream
• Error Handling

License

This package is released under the MIT license. See the complete license in the package:

LICENSE