glipchat

Overview
Live Demo
Motivation
Installation
Electron Notes
Android Cordova Notes
Resources
Contributing
Licence

Overview

glipchat is a real-time video chatroom application. glipchat is powered by Meteor, with React + Redux + WebRTC on the frontend.

glipchat has been tested on the following:

Android 4.3+ cordova app (currently disabled)
Chrome
Chrome for Android (Android 5+)
Firefox
OS X (Electron application)

Other browsers and operating systems may not support WebRTC.

Live Demo

View the project at https://glipchat.herokuapp.com/

Motivation

glipchat's mission is to be a veritable OSS solution for multi-user multi-platform video conferencing -- a product regular people can use and developers can modify and build into their own products.

Installation

Clone the project git clone https://github.com/srtucker22/glipchat.git
Go to the primary directory cd glipchat
Add a settings.json to the primary directory touch settings.json

Add your personal settings for the following services included in glipchat (or remove the ones you don't want)

 {
   "admins": [{
     "name": "Administrator",
     "email": "admin@example.com",
     "roles": ["admin"],
     "password": "ADMIN_PASSWORD"
   }],
   "google" : {
     "clientId" : "YOUR_CLIENT_ID",
     "clientSecret" : "YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET"
     "browserKey": "YOUR_BROWSER_KEY",
     "apiKey": "YOUR_API_KEY",
     "projectNumber": "YOUR_PROJECT_NUMBER"
   },
   "public": {
     "analyticsSettings": {
       "Google Analytics": {"trackingId": "YOUR_TRACKING_ID"},
       "Segment.io" : {"apiKey": "YOUR_API_KEY"}
     }
   }
 }

Run the app with the settings npm start

Electron Notes:

glipchat uses electron to easily transform into a downloadable desktop app. The code for this app is located at private/electron

We use electron-simple-updater for building, publishing, and updating the electron application. View the [README]{https://github.com/srtucker22/glipchat/blob/master/private/electron/README.md} in private/electron for details on how to use these tools.

See download-button.component.js for how components reference this directory.

Android Cordova Notes:

In order to run video conferencing on glipchat as a cordova app, you will to have the latest version of Android Studio installed and you will need to use an actual Android device (currently tested with devices 4.3+). Plug in your device to your computer via USB and run

meteor run android-device -p {local port} --settings settings.json

In order to use Google auth, you will need to run the application from a live mobiles server (see [OAuth for Mobile Meteor Clients](https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/OAuth-for-mobile-Meteor-clients] for details). To do this, first deploy your meteor application to a live server.

(e.g. meteor deploy {your-server-url} --settings settings.json)

Once the app is successfully deployed, run:

meteor run android-device --mobile-server {your-server-url} --settings settings.json

nice additional flags might be: --verbose --production

Please read the Meteor Cordova Integration docs for more details.

Application Design Overview

glipchat is an example of how to create a WebRTC video chatroom and also of how to integrate React with Redux in a Meteor app.

Don't know React or Redux? No problem!

The best way to describe React is that it is a view layer only.

Redux is a flavor of Flux, and is an architectural pattern that can be used with React to enable one-way data flows to a centralized application data store using an event system.

Read these useful guides to get a quick overview:

Routing is done with React Router

Routing in this application may not be obvious. Check out routes.js for the main router code.

glipchat uses RocketChat:Streamer to power the WebRTC communication.

Resources

glipchat (formerly named quasar) meteor lightening talk @MeteorHQ

Contributing

This project welcomes code contributions, bug reports and feature requests. Please see the guidelines in CONTRIBUTING.MD if you are interested in contributing.

License

The MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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