Current status of Public hubs

[hansSchall]

This project is a really cool demonstration of what is possible with WebRTC!

For one of my current projects this might actually be usefull, but I need to connect different devices, so I require the Public Hub which seems to be a stub right now.

Would it be enough to implement a simple messaging system (we have a maximum of a dozen concurrent users) that behaves like the Private Hub? We already have implemented something simmilar in a previous iteration of our project, back then we manually did all the WebRTC things. This local-network-like abstraction would save us a lot of work.

[sinclairzx81]

@hansSchall Hi,

Would it be enough to implement a simple messaging system (we have a maximum of a dozen concurrent users) that behaves like the Private Hub? We already have implemented something simmilar in a previous iteration of our project, back then we manually did all the WebRTC things. This local-network-like abstraction would save us a lot of work.

A public hub implementation should be relatively straight forward to implement if you've built a WebRTC signaling server before. The hub is a simple message forwarding service that runs over a web socket (or other transport) and just needs to forward RTC Candidate / SDP messages between peers connected to the Hub.

I have been meaning to publish a formal implementation at some point, but did prepare the following reference starter project for another user.

https://github.com/user-attachments/files/16594550/smoke-starter.zip

To use, unzip the project and run the following from the project root.

$ npm install 

$ npm start        # website: port 5000
                   # hub: port 5001

The server backend is written with https://github.com/sinclairzx81/sidewinder, and should be fairly self explanatory. Feel free to take this project and put it under a GH repo. It handles basic connectivity only, but you can extend it to support additional functionality, or just use it as a reference implementation if you want to build the service using another stack.

Let me know how you go.
Cheers
S

[hansSchall]

Thank you for the example app, I will have a look at this during the next weeks and eventually create a PR for the WS client.

We use Deno for our backend, so I will implement a signalling server with Deno, too.