Learning WebRTC

Building a basic WebRTC application

Now that we have a good understanding of how the pieces of WebRTC are used, we are going to build our first WebRTC-enabled application. By the end of this chapter, you will have a working WebRTC web page where you can see the technology in action. We are going to pull all the information we just covered in to an easy-to-develop example. We will cover:

• Creating a RTCPeerConnection
• Creating the SDP offer and response
• Finding ICE candidates for peers
• Creating a successful WebRTC connection

Creating a RTCPeerConnection

The application we are going to create will, unfortunately, not be an entirely useful one, unless you happen to like looking at yourself in a mirror. What we aim to do in this chapter is connect a browser ...