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WebRTC enables real-time communication in the browser.

This tutorial explains how to build a simple video and text chat application.

For more information about WebRTC, see Getting started with WebRTC on HTML5 Rocks.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge:

1. HTML, CSS and JavaScript
2. git
3. Chrome DevTools

Experience of Node.js and socket.io would also be useful.

##Code Lab Sessions

• Session 01 = Items to install as a WebRTC code lab developer.
• Session 02 = Get video from your webcam.
• Session 03 = Stream video with RTCPeerConnection.
• Session 04 = Stream arbitrary data with RTCDataChannel.
• Session 05 = Set up a signaling server and exchange messages.
• Session 06 = RTCPeerConnection with messaging.
• Session 07 = Putting it all together: RTCPeerConnection + RTCDataChannel + signaling.
• Session 08 = Use a WebRTC library: SimpleWebRTC.

This tutorial originates from this WebRTC codelab repo.