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How to Integrate Screen Share Feature in React JS Video Call App?

What's this blog post about?

The text discusses how to integrate a screen share feature into a React JS video call application, which can enhance collaboration and productivity among users. It provides benefits of screen sharing such as improved communication, increased productivity, remote work facilitation, and seamless integration. Use cases for the screen share feature are also mentioned, including remote work, online education, customer support, team collaboration, and sales demos. The text then guides developers on how to get started with VideoSDK, a platform that offers chat functionality and other features necessary for video calling applications. It covers essential steps to implement video in React applications, such as setting up the environment, installing VideoSDK, creating an API request to generate a unique meeting ID, and using hooks and context providers from the VideoSDK library. The text also provides instructions on how to integrate screen sharing into the application, including enabling, disabling, and toggling screen share features, handling events associated with toggleScreenShare, and rendering screen shares and audio streams. Finally, it mentions that the site must be SSL enabled for using audio and video communications in the web browser.

Company
Video SDK

Date published
April 16, 2024

Author(s)
Kishan Nakrani

Word count
2694

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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