Objectives

The goal of this project was to build something with the WebRTC protocol. I did some research and decided to use the open source Kurento Media server for the media aspect of the project since it's free and supports WebRTC selective forwarding. I decided to build the application/signaling server in .net core since it's my go-to framework. I decided to also learn react hooks in this project as I built out the front-end.

Technology stack

• Front End: React (16.8.6 with hooks)

• Redux for state management and Material UI for styling

• Back End (application / signaling server): asp.net core 2.2

• Back End (media server): Kurento Media Server

• Back End (turn server): Coturn

Features

• Real-time conferencing

• Video/web cam chat support

• Audio chat support

• Text-based chat support

• public / private room based system

• Low-latency scalable media server

• Uses Selective forwarding unit instead of P2P to cut down on client bandwidth

• Signaling server communicates with media server via JSON-RPC

• Deployed on an AWS ec2 ubuntu instance