Unlocking Real-Time Communication in Web Apps with WebRTC
Web application features you may not know: Real-Time Communication
When you think of web applications, you automatically think of web servers. Data is accessed online and processed and stored centrally. However, direct connections can also be established via web applications, which enables completely new approaches.
As WebRTC, the topic is already over 10 years old. Version 1.0 has been available since 2021 and is supported by most browsers.
Although a mediation server is required, the actual exchange of video, sound and data is then carried out directly and necessarily encrypted. This means that not only obvious use cases such as video calls and chats are conceivable, but also data collaborations that then work with direct connections.
The approach is not only exciting if you pay attention to your data and don’t want to send it via a server. It is also interesting from the provider’s perspective because no bandwidth has to be made available for such a transmission.
Advantage, also in terms of service availability: If necessary, freely available servers can also be used for mediation. A locally installed web app would therefore not have to rely on its original server.