Objectives

I created this project to learn more about the WebRTC protocol and peer to peer connections in browsers.The UI has a discord theme and gives users the option to chat with text or through their microphones aftergranting the browser access. Signaling is done via web sockets.

Technology stack

• Front End: React with peerjs

• socket-io

• and hark (for volume detection)

• Back End: Express with peerjs and socket-io

Features

Voice chat

• Users can be muted

• Users can mute themselves

• Usernames are highlighted when volume is coming from their mic

Text Chat

• Users can send messages