Generic Sharing of a Webpage

What is it?

This plugin is one of the official BigBlueButton plugins. It basically opens up a link that the presenter wants. That might be a video, a document, or anything that supports being rendered in an iFrame.

Building the Plugin

To build the plugin for production use, follow these steps:

cd $HOME/src/plugin-generic-link-share
npm ci
npm run build-bundle

The above commands will generate the dist folder, containing the bundled JavaScript file named GenericLinkShare.js. This file can be hosted on any HTTPS server along with its manifest.json.

If you install the plugin separated from the manifest, remember to change the javascriptEntrypointUrl in the manifest.json to the correct endpoint.

To use the plugin in BigBlueButton, send this parameter along in create call:

pluginManifests=[{"url":"<your-domain>/path/to/manifest.json"}]

Or additionally, you can add this same configuration in the .properties file from bbb-web in /usr/share/bbb-web/WEB-INF/classes/bigbluebutton.properties

Development mode

As for development mode (running this plugin from source), please, refer back to https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton-html-plugin-sdk section Running the Plugin from Source