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Video Conferencing and Chatting

Description

Building Microsoft Teams Clone for smooth Video Conferencing and Chatting with friends with Authentication of users and automatic invite email feature.

Note - To get access to Video camera and Microphone with http protocol we have to whitelist the website URL in the browser, for that

  • go to chrome://flags
  • Insecure origins treated as secure
  • Add website URL here and Enabled it
  • Restart browser

Screenshots

Home Page Call Page Sign Up Page Mailer Page

Technologies Stack:

Components

  • Node.js,MongoDB,Express.js,EJS
  • Socket.io,Peer.js
  • Javascript,AJAX,jquery
  • Sass,css
  • Nodemailer
  • Notyjs
  • uuidv4

Insights

  • used socket.io and Peerjs for implementing Video call and Chat.
  • Camera and Microphone turn on/off feature.
  • button for hiding and enlarging the chat box
  • uuidv4 for generating random urls.
  • passport-jwt strategy for authentication and authorization.
  • passport-google-oauth2 strategy for social authentication through google.
  • used Nodemailer to send out emails.
  • used morgan to make production logs
  • Notyjs for display notifications

How to install

  • Clone the project onto your local machine.
  • Then cd videochat
  • npm install to install dependencies
  • globally install nodemon
  • globally install and set mongodb
  • nodemon index.js (run server in development mode)
  • npm run prod_start (to run server in production mode)
  • Visit your app at http://localhost:8000

Settings for Mailer and Google Sign In

  • go to environment file in config
  • add your Gmail id and password to use it to send invite mails
  • add Google Oauth 2 credentials for google sign in/up
  • for production mode add these in environment variables.