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Signalling as a driver: how we built a transport-agnostic WebRTC library

DEV Community·Peerix·22 days ago
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If you've ever tried to build a peer-to-peer app in the browser, you've probably noticed something: every WebRTC library makes the signalling decision for you. PeerJS bundles its own broker. simple-peer leaves signalling entirely up to you. Most libraries in between hardcode one transport and build the API around it. Change your mind about signalling later, and you're rewriting a lot of code. Peerix takes a different approach. The signalling layer is a driver — pluggable, swappable, and completely separate from the peer logic. Two concerns, one library WebRTC has two distinct problems mixed into one specification. The first is signalling: how peers find each other and exchange the SDP offers, answers, and ICE candidates needed to set up a connection. This is a transport problem. You can solve it with WebSockets, NATS, BroadcastChannel between tabs, or anything else that can move a message from A to B.…

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