P2P Video Chat App

Simple Web Application that offer you to create video and audio calling room as well as chat with other users using WebRTC and Socket.

Prerequisites

You have to install Node.js and React JS in your machine.

Installing

npm install in both frontend and backend folders
To run backend  - npm run dev
To run frontend - npm start 

Features

Refer to the uploaded video for a clear working of app and features 

• Register to create an account or login if account already exists ( Done authentication for repeat emails and phone numbers )

• For chatting go to chat page and you can send text or image to your friend. ( Used Socket.io and ImageKit API for the above purpose and to store messages used MONGODB database )

• For Video or audio call go to video call page and audio call page respectfully then either create a room or join using the same ID as of your friend. ( Used WEBRTC for the implementing both the features )

• Implemented protected routing to prevent accessing the pages without being logged in(done using Json Web Token authentication)

• Profile page to display the user information

• Also deployed the app on render

Built With

• Node Js - The Backend
• React JS - The Frontend
• SocketIo - For realtime communication
• NPM - Dependency Management
• GITLab - Used for version control
• WEBRTC - For video and audio calling
• MONGODB - For storing the user information and chats
• ImageKit - For storing images used in chat
• Render - Used to Deploy Node.js applications

Other Contributers

• Yash Kawade
• Aabid Raina
• Abhinay Maurya