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Kurento tutorials for Node JS

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Kurento tutorial for Node.js

Examples on usage of the Kurento Node.js Client.

This project contains a set of simple applications built with JavaScript Kurento Client APIs (kurento-client-js and kurento-utils-js) for Node.js.

The source code of this project can be cloned from the GitHub repository.

Installation instructions

Be sure to have installed Node.js in your system:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | sudo bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

It is recommended to update NPM to the latest version:

sudo npm install npm -g

Install node modules and bower components

npm install

Run the application and have fun ...

npm start

Parameters

The Node.js server accept an optional parameter with the URI of the MediaServer WebSocket endpoint, being set by default at ws://localhost:8888/kurento. You can define its value by using the ws_uri flag:

npm start -- --ws_uri=ws://example.com:8888/kurento

It also accept an optional parameter with the URI of the application server root that will serve the overlay image, being by default at https://localhost:8443/. You can define its value by using the as_uri flag:

npm start -- --as_uri=https://example.org:8443/

For example, if you would like to start the node server in the localhost using the port 8081, then the command is the following:

npm start -- --as_uri=https://localhost:8081/

Please notice that the double dash separator (--) is on purpose.

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Kurento is part of the NUBOMEDIA research initiative.

Documentation

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