/life-meet

Open source video conferencing system for tutors.

Primary LanguageTypeScriptGNU Affero General Public License v3.0AGPL-3.0

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Overview

LifeMeet is an open source video conference web application designed for interactive online tutoring. Some of the features included are:

  • Audio and video: Real-time sharing of audio and video.
  • Shared whiteboard: Collaborate with students on a shared whiteboard.
  • Screen sharing: Go to presenting mode by sharing your screen.
  • Chat: Send simple messages to other participants of the meeting.
  • File sharing: Upload relevant files to the meeting.
  • Graph plotter: Insert mathematical graphs to the whiteboard.
  • Customizable: Create an account and upload your own logos.



Live demo

Live demo

Run it locally

  • Run the Node.js server application in a terminal:
$ cd server
# Copy .env.template secrets file and adjust them if needed
$ cp integrations/.env.template integrations/.env
# Using docker compose to spin up redis and mongodb 
$ npm run infra
# Installing server dependencies
$ npm i
# Starting server
$ npm start
  • In a different terminal run the browser application:
$ cd frontend
$ npm i
$ npm start
  • Create meeting
# The response will give you a entrypoint / url for your meeting.
$ curl -X POST "http://localhost:5000/api/v1/meeting" -H  "authorization: life_meet_default_secret" -H  "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{  \"title\": \"First LifeMeet meeting\"}"

Documentation

The server exposes a swagger document at http://localhost:5000/api/v1/docs/. Or you can check it out live here

Contributing

Contributions are welcome and greatly appreciated!

License

AGPL3