Getting Started
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.
Installation
npm install peer-data
yarn add peer-data
WebRTC Chat server-less example application.
Shared versus Many RCTPeerConnection
PeerData runs multiple RCTPeerConnection - one per user. Why? Main reason because it is easier to manage participants. With multiple RTCPeerConnection we’ve got a lot more flexibility, since the sessions are independent – each encapsulated in its own RTCPeerConnection.