With the advent of a huge push in video calling technologies due to Covid-19, I started growing ever so curious about how all of it works. As I looked more and more into it, I discovered a lot, learned a lot and wanted to build an application for myself!

May I present to you Cuckoo: Free and anonymous video calling
drumrolls please 😂

Technologies used:

• WebRTC- facilitates real time data communication between two peers.
• simple-peer- Simple-peer library acts as a wrapper over WebRTC and makes it simpler.
• socket-io as a wrapper over web sockets.

Features

• Audio call
• Video call
• Screen sharing

Try it live: live demo

This project is available at GitHub -

somikdatta / cuckoo

🎥 Cuckoo - A free anonymous video-calling web application built with WebRTC and React that provides peer-to-peer video and audio communication in a web browser with no plugins or extensions required.

Cuckoo - Anonymous, Free Video Calls

Anonymous video calls across the world for free with screensharing!

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Cuckoo is a small project to demonstrate the concepts of WebRTC, WebSockets by facilitating video calls across the web!

🧐 Feature list

• Video Call
• Screen Sharing
• Select camera
• Select audio device

🚀 Getting started

This project is deployed at https://cuckooapp.herokuapp.com

Guide for local deployment -

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/somikdatta/cuckoo.git

2. Change the working directory

cd cuckoo

3. Install dependencies

npm install

4. Change the working directory

cd client

5. Install dependencies

yarn install

6. Run the app

npm start in parent directory /cuckoo

yarn start in directory /cuckoo/client

7. Open project at http://localhost:3000

🌟 You are all set!

🙇 Special Thanks

• Coding with Chaim for explaining the concepts of WebSockets and WebRTC on his YouTube Channel

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Try it if you find it interesting!

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