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Learning WebRTC

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Product type Book
Published in Jun 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783983667
Pages 186 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Daniel M. Ristic Daniel M. Ristic
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Dan Ristic is a frontend engineer and evangelist for Open Web. He strives to push the Web forward with new and creative ideas using the latest technologies. He attended the University of Advancing Technology, Arizona, where he furthered his engineering knowledge and fueled his passion for the Web. He has been writing applications on the Web ever since. He currently lives and works in San Francisco as a senior software engineer at Sony Network Entertainment International. At Sony, he is responsible for managing the frontend application architecture and delivering the PlayStation Store to millions of users. In his free time, he can be found hiking, exploring, working on projects, and attending events.
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Learning WebRTC
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with WebRTC 2. Getting the User's Media 3. Creating a Basic WebRTC Application 4. Creating a Signaling Server 5. Connecting Clients Together 6. Sending Data with WebRTC 7. File Sharing 8. Advanced Security and Large-scale Optimization Answers to Self-test Questions Index

Setting up our environment

We are going to utilize the power of Node.js to build our server. If you have never programmed in Node.js before, do not worry! This technology utilizes a JavaScript engine to do all the work. This means that all of the programming will be in JavaScript so there will be no new language to learn. Now, let's perform the following steps to set up our Node.js environment:

  1. The first step to running a node.js server is to install node.js.

    Note

    You can visit the website at http://nodejs.org/ to get more information on how to install it. There are many options out there for every OS, so feel free to choose the one that best suits your needs. At the time of writing, the latest Node.js version is v0.12.4.

  2. Now you can open up your terminal application and use the node command to bring up the Node.js VM. Node.js is based on the V8 JavaScript engine that comes with Google Chrome. This means that it works extremely close to how the browser interprets JavaScript. Type in a few commands...

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Authors (1)

Profile icon Daniel M. Ristic
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Dan Ristic is a frontend engineer and evangelist for Open Web. He strives to push the Web forward with new and creative ideas using the latest technologies. He attended the University of Advancing Technology, Arizona, where he furthered his engineering knowledge and fueled his passion for the Web. He has been writing applications on the Web ever since. He currently lives and works in San Francisco as a senior software engineer at Sony Network Entertainment International. At Sony, he is responsible for managing the frontend application architecture and delivering the PlayStation Store to millions of users. In his free time, he can be found hiking, exploring, working on projects, and attending events.
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