UTutopian3·Dec 17, 2019Submission
Simple-peer: Simple WebRTC video, voice, and data channels
18 points · Open discussionfeross
simple-peer
JavaScript2015–2022
feross / simple-peer
simple-peer
📡 Simple WebRTC video, voice, and data channels
15Distinct people
18Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
7.8KGitHub stars
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What it is
📡 Simple WebRTC video, voice, and data channels
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Where it is used
- Speakrandom — Speakrandom - Voice-chat social network using simple-peer to create audio conferences! Source
- Deskreen — Deskreen - A desktop app that helps you to turn any device into a secondary screen for your computer. It uses simple-peer for sharing entire computer screen to any device with a web browser. Source
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Observed mentions: 2015-07-15 17:27:10 UTC to 2022-11-29 20:27:08 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesPeerjs is dead, simple-peer(https://github.com/feross/simple-peer) is more of a maintained one.
In PeerJS simplifies WebRTC peer-to-peer data, video, and audio callsShow HN: Signaller – the first public WebRTC signalling service using WebSockets
Hello HN!
I love decentralisation for variety of reasons and have been recently playing with WebRTC. Whilst experimenting with it using simple-peer[0], I found signalling absurdly hard! There are public STUN servers[1] (of Google and Twilio) but there wasn't a single public signalling service available... until I created one!
I wrote signaller, a WebSocket relay in Go, from scratch because all of the solutions I found was unnecessarily complex (such using socket.io) whilst plain WebSockets will do the trick.
I believe one of the greatest advantages of decentralised applications is them not being a maintenance burden on the shoulders of their developers, in other words, the absence of a need to maintain an infrastructure to keep the app running (except maybe a web server for static files). Up until now, signalling was a barrier to use WebR
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TC, so by making signaller available as a public service I hope to enable more developers adopt and experiment with WebRTC.
Feel free to use, but please don't abuse it. =)
https://signaller.cecibot.com/
GitHub: https://github.com/boramalper/signaller
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[0]: https://github.com/feross/simple-peer