/LiveStreaming-And-Chat

Webrtc, & web socket based streaming live video streaming and chatting platform. Written in Node, Typescript, and Javascript!

Primary LanguageTypeScript

Live Streaming!!

  • Welcome to my implementation of live streaming along with real time chat. I'm going to make a live streaming platform that will supoort streaming from a single user...aka ME, but will let anyone view it, and interact in a chatroom while I stream a video!

Architecture

Video Streaming

  • Built with Peerjs for webrtc and socketio for websocket.
  • Admin publishing client waits for users to join.
  • When users join they emit an event containing their peerjs ID via websocket, which is relayed to Admin publishing client.
  • The admin publishing client upon recieving the viewer's peerjs client initiates a peer to peer connection to the viewer, and begins streaming audio and video data across the network using webrtc.

Live Chat

  • Purely built over websockets. The live chat does not utilize webrtc.
  • Clients emit messages that are then stored for running a backfill when later users join, this backfill is purged ever 10 seconds when thread size exceeds over 400 messages.
  • Server broadcasts messages, which is a monitored event that a client will respond to by altering it's own state.

Capabilities

  • Authenticated route to access to upload permissions
  • Once logged in I can begin streaming
  • A random user can hit a url to view a live stream session.
  • live stream sessions will be visible only when I am streaming.
  • live stream will be presented with a live chat room!

Technologies

  • Node js, Typescript, Javascript, HTML, CSS, EJS, WebRtc (peer), Webscokets (Socket.io)

How to run this?

  • Have npm installed!
  • npm i -g peerjs
  • Create and set your local env variables: JWT_KEY, USERNAME, PASSWORD
  • npm i
  • npm run start.
  • Access localhost:3000/admin/signin to login and stream
  • Access localhost:3000/ to view livestream and chat!