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WebDevSimplified/Zoom-Clone-With-WebRTC
A minimal WebRTC peer-to-peer video chat clone built as a tutorial project by WebDevSimplified. It demonstrates the core WebRTC signaling flow using Socket.io and PeerJS, aimed at developers learning real-time video fundamentals.
PeerJS abstracts the ICE/SDP negotiation boilerplate, making the signaling flow readable in under 50 lines of client code. The project is deliberately minimal — server.js and script.js together are probably 100 lines — so the signal path is easy to trace. Good as a starting point for understanding how offer/answer and turn servers fit together.
Last touched December 2022 and PeerJS itself has had breaking changes since — there's a real chance this doesn't work out of the box anymore. No TURN server configuration means it silently fails on networks with strict NAT, which is most corporate environments and mobile. No error handling anywhere: if a peer drops or a connection fails, the UI just freezes. The 854 forks suggest lots of people building on this, but the foundation is too thin for anything beyond a local demo.