Meetify

Meetify is an online chat + video streaming application to talk with anonymous users along the world.

Run Locally

Frontend:

cd client

npm i

npm start

Backend:

cd server

npm i

npm start

Tech Stacks:

Client Side

ReactJS : For creating UI of the application.
Redux : For state management

Server Side

NodeJS : For server side rendering
ExpressJS : Routing & middleware framework
MongoDB ( MongoDB Atlas ) : For database management system
Ngrok[https://ngrok.com/] : For real-time use of local servers to the Internet

Video Calling:

This project doesn't use any external plugins for video calling. Instead, it uses APIs provided by WebRTC standard.

A STUN server is used to get public IP address
A TURN server is used to relay traffic if direct connection(peer to peer) fails. Currently, free TURN server is used for demonstration.