WebRTC API

Learn how to use the WebRTC API to establish peer-to-peer communications. After reading this guide, you will know how to connect your users with each other, how to create a system to let your users perform video calls, and how to transfer data from one user to another.


Table of Contents


WEBRTC API

Web Paradigms

ICE Servers

Peer Connection

ICE Candidate

Offer and Answer

Session Description

Media Streams

Events

Configuration

Configuring the Signaling Server

Configuring the ICE Servers

Implementing WebRTC

Data Channels


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Connection

ICE Candidate

Signals

Streams

Events

Data Channels


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