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Re:Building video chat into my personal website using WebRTC... by Sean-Der on Monday May 03, 2021 @05:25PM (#27030882)
WebRTC + networking is frustrating. IMO it is a leaky abstraction. There was a hope that ICE+TURN would work everywhere and users would never need to worry. That isn't true so we need to do a better job educating developers about what/why things went wrong.

I am working on a Open Source book that includes a WebRTC networking chapter[0]. Would love your opinions/feedback if this would have actually been helpful when learning this stuff!

[0] https://webrtcforthecurious.com/docs/03-connecting/

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Re:Building video chat into my personal website using WebRTC... by parhamn on Monday May 03, 2021 @05:30PM (#27030965)
Wonderful and very well written, thanks!

I too experimented with a p2p golang webchat setup. All the jargon was confusing and very hard to look up. This post has already given me much more clarity!!

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