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Building a Skype Clone App Using 100ms React SDK

What's this blog post about?

In this tutorial, the author demonstrates how to build an application similar to Skype using the 100ms React SDK. The app includes features such as video and audio conferencing, meeting name setting, authentication token generation, remote peer handling, status bar implementation with various functionalities like muting/unmuting audio, hiding/ unhiding video tracks, hand-raising functionality, participants list display, screen sharing, and chat feature. The author assumes that the reader has basic knowledge of CSS, JavaScript, and React.js (functional components and hooks). They also use Material UI for component library in this project. The tutorial covers setting up a starter template using create-react-app structure, creating an account on 100ms dashboard, defining roles and settings, room creation, connecting SDK to the app, meeting name feature implementation, join form creation, meeting room rendering, status bar creation with various buttons, hand-raising functionality, participants list display, screen sharing feature implementation, and chat feature implementation. The author also provides a live version of the project and the full source code on GitHub.

Company
100ms

Date published
April 2, 2022

Author(s)
Emmanuel Eboh

Word count
3617

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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