Video-Chat-App-

Overview

Video Chat App is a clone of the popular chat app Discord. Users are able to create and join room, send and accept/reject friend requests, create rooms with audio call possibility and message each other through text channels or through direct messaging.

Technologies Used

 Build A Discord Chat App with MERN stack and REDUX
 
 Server Side packages:
 MongoDB: Our Main Database
 Express: Our NodeJS framework
 NodeJS: Used to create the server
 Socket.io: Used for real-time communication
 
 Client Side packages:
 ReactJS: Our Js Library to create UI components.
 Socket.io: Used for real-time communication (client side)
 Web RTC: Used for videochat and audio call possibilities.

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Author: Helitha Rupasinghe
Licence: MIT
Credit: Marek Gryszkiewicz (Web Developer)

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Features: 🚀

• Local Authentication
• Loads User Data upon login (Rooms, Channels, Private Messages)
• Creation and Joining Rooms
• Room Settings (Changes between Camera, Mic, ScreenShare and deletion of room)
• Persistent channel history
• Private messaging
• Timestamps for messages
• Show current active users in given Room
• Voice Chat (Buggy, but main features work)

Friend Requests

• Users can accept or reject friend requests
• Friend requests are sent in real time
• Users can cancel outgoing friend requests
• Users can see who is online/offline
• Users can accept or cancel incoming friend requests
• Users can remove friends from their friends list (TBC)

Servers

• Users can create a new Room (the user is then the admin of that Room)
• Rooms are created with audio call possibility
• Users can join an existing Room
• Users can close & delete the room if they are admin.
• Users can see all the other members in the room.

Testing the sample app for video-call possibility between browsers.

| E-MAIL | PASSWORD |
| [email protected] | 123123 |
| [email protected]  | 123123 |

Open the Video-Chat-App between two browsers and authenticate with the details provided above.

• Notice the activeUsers on both browsers before creating a room
• Create a room and join the newly created room on both browsers and hover over the room to view the number of connected users.
• Successful peer-to-peer connection between both browsers accepting ICE Server configuration.

🛡️ License:

This project is under the MIT License (MIT). See the LICENSE for more information.

👨‍💻 Contributions:

Contributions are always welcome...

• Fork the repository
• Improve current program by
• improving functionality
• adding a new feature
• bug fixes
• Push your work and Create a Pull Request