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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