KLKlasiaster·May 8, 2022
There is work for using libp2p instead of a fixed third-party server:
https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-webrtc-direct...
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go-libp2p-webrtc-direct
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go-libp2p-webrtc-direct
A libp2p transport that enables browser-to-server, and server-to-server, direct communication over WebRTC without requiring signalling servers
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What it is
A libp2p transport that enables browser-to-server, and server-to-server, direct communication over WebRTC without requiring signalling servers
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesIf you are new to WebRTC it is a really amazing technology, and lots of powerful things can be built with it. It isn't just a technology for conferencing, you can build powerful P2P software that works on all platforms (including your browser!)
You can see it in use in places like IPFS[0] so come check out the examples[1] and build something cool.
We also would love to chat! You can find us on Slack[2], while this channel was started for Pion there is a lot of interesting general WebRTC conversation going on.
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I am excited to announce that v2.0.* has officially landed and stabilized! Multiple large production users have migrated to it and we fixed all the bugs we found along the way.
This was a really big release, you can see the full release notes[3] are some exciting parts though.
* Unified Plan and Plan-B support
* QUIC Support
* W
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ebAssembly Support
* ICE Regular Nomination (better support for NATs)
* Massive SCTP performance and reliability improvements
* API Cleanup to better match the WebRTC Spec
We are also starting work on v2.1.* which so far will include the following. If you have a feature that you think is important we would love to hear!
* TURN Support
* User configurable JitterBuffer
* Re-negotiation (allow multiple Offer/Answer)
[0] https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-webrtc-direct
[1] https://github.com/pion/webrtc/tree/master/examples
[2] https://pion.ly/slack
[3] https://pion.ly/knowledge-base/release-notes/webrtc-v2.0.0/