Description

RebRTC based peer-to-peer chat implemented with react.js and flux architecture.

• Redux is used as flux implementation.
• Peer.js is used to webrtc communications.
• As a signal server I use peer.js + express server, it is deployed on 46.101.152.230.
• Signal server is used for the firts-time chatmates search only. All other communications are peer-to-peer.

Features

• Each participant stores chat history and send it to newcomer.
• Management is command based, a command format is /<command> param.
• /name john command will set your name, the name is stored in local storage.
• /who command asks who's online now.
• /help prints help message.
• Also mentions are implemented, you can mention john with @john substring, the message will be highlighted in john's UI.
• Feel free to like any messages.

Installation

First of all, you can access it on http://46.101.152.230:3000/

To deploy it please procced several steps

0. nodejs 0.12 has to be installed on target system.

1. install it

git clone git@github.com:anev/webrtc.git
cd webrtc
npm install

2. Run chat server node server.js

3. Run signaling server node discover.js

Also you can use docker to run the app (a Dockerfile provided)

• docker build -t chatapp .
• docker run -p 3000:3000 chatapp