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Fork of serverless-rtc which was a demo that showed how to use WebRTC without a signaling server by performing the offer/answer exchange manually via IM/email/etc.

This fork builds on top of that demo by allowing you to exchange the offer/answer using QR codes as long as the two browsers have cameras that can see each other's screen.

Uses lz-string for compression, jsqrcode for scanning, and jquery-qrcode for displaying QR codes. So after cloning you also need to:

 git submodule init
 git submodule update

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serverless-webrtc

This is a tech demo of using WebRTC without a signaling server -- the WebRTC offer/answer exchange is performed manually by the users, for example via IM. This means that the app can run out of file:/// directly, without involving a web server. You can send text messages and files between peers.

This repository contains two different clients that can talk to each other:

  1. serverless-webrtc.js runs under node.js
  2. serverless-webrtc.html runs in Chrome or Firefox

Chat is fully interoperable between all of the above (Node, Chrome, Firefox) in any combination (tested with Chrome 35 and Firefox 29).

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For Node:

 λ npm install serverless-webrtc
 λ node_modules/serverless-webrtc/serverless-webrtc.js

Under Node, if you want to create a session instead of joining one:

 λ node_modules/serverless-webrtc/serverless-webrtc.js --create

For browsers:

In Chrome (but not Firefox), you'll need to run a local web server rather than just browsing to file:///, like this:

 λ cd serverless-webrtc
 λ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8001 .
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8001 ...

and then browse to http://localhost:8001/.

Blog posts with more details:

http://blog.printf.net/articles/2013/05/17/webrtc-without-a-signaling-server

http://blog.printf.net/articles/2014/07/01/serverless-webrtc-continued

Browser demo link:

http://cjb.github.io/serverless-webrtc/serverless-webrtc.html

-- Chris Ball [email protected] (http://printf.net/)

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