Stream Video Chat With Texting Using Vonage Video API

The Vonage Video API tutorial series aims to explore the capabilities of the API and provide hands-on experience with its features. The current tutorial focuses on building a video chat application that allows users to select their role as either a viewer or a participant. Viewers can see all published video streams and interact with others via text chat, while participants can also publish their video to the chat. The application is built using vanilla JavaScript, Glitch for ease of setup, and Node.js. The tutorial covers setting up the project structure, initializing a session, connecting to the session, subscribing and publishing, and handling routes on the server. It also includes client-side JavaScript modifications to redirect users to the correct page based on their selected role and handle token generation for viewers and participants.