RTCDataChannel communication between server and client

Question

I am going to create real time web application and would like to use WebRTC RTCDataChannel to exchange data between client and server.

WebRTC is created for peer-to-peer communication. However, is it possible to do data exchanging between server and client?

Answer 1

Yes! You could use a WebRTC implementation and build your server from the ground up. Will feel like using a HTTP library and setting your own endpoints.

• https://github.com/aiortc/aiortc (Python)
• GStreamer’s webrtcbin (C)
• https://github.com/shinyoshiaki/werift-webrtc (Typescript)
• https://github.com/pion/webrtc (Golang)
• https://github.com/webrtc-rs/webrtc (Rust)
• https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-webrtc-sdk-c (C/Embedded)
• https://webrtc.googlesource.com/src/ (C++)
• https://github.com/rawrtc/rawrtc (C++)
• https://github.com/sipsorcery-org/sipsorcery (C#)
• https://github.com/paullouisageneau/libdatachannel (C++)

Or you could run a WebRTC server and write an extension/modify it. This will get you something working quicker.

• https://github.com/meetecho/janus-gateway
• https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet
• https://github.com/versatica/mediasoup
• https://github.com/pion/ion-sfu
• https://galene.org
• https://github.com/peer-calls/peer-calls

Happy to answer more directed questions. I think it depends on what languages/tools you feel comfortable with.