peers/peerjs-server

Features

• Signaling Servers - Provides a dedicated signaling server to coordinate handshakes and discover peer identifiers for WebRTC connections.
• Peer Connection Management - Manages the full lifecycle of peer connections, including registration, disconnection, and session state monitoring.
• Peer-to-Peer Data Exchange - Facilitates the direct exchange of raw data packets and files between browsers using unique client identifiers.
• Data Channel Establishment - Enables the negotiation and establishment of peer-to-peer data channels for real-time binary or text exchange.
• Peer Discovery - Manages the discovery of other peers and the signaling handshake required to enable direct communication.
• Peer Connection Brokers - Acts as a connection broker by assigning unique identifiers and facilitating peer discovery.
• Peer-to-Peer Media Libraries - Establishes direct peer-to-peer audio and video calls between clients without routing media through a central server.
• Media Call Initiation - Facilitates connecting to a remote peer via a unique identifier to establish a real-time media stream.
• Real-Time Message Push - Utilizes persistent WebSocket connections to push real-time signaling events and connection requests to clients.
• Signaling Session Management - Manages IP addresses and client IDs in temporary memory to coordinate connections and purge inactive sessions.
• Signaling Coordination - Provides the signaling coordination required to exchange session descriptions and network candidates for WebRTC peer connectivity.
• WebRTC Session Management - Manages the complete lifecycle of WebRTC sessions, including identity generation, signaling, and session monitoring.
• WebRTC Facilitators - Provides the signaling infrastructure necessary to facilitate real-time audio, video, and screen-sharing sessions between browsers.
• In-Memory State Stores - Maintains an in-memory state store of active client identifiers and network addresses for fast connection routing.
• Peer Identifier Generation - Supports the creation of unique identifiers for connecting clients using random strings or custom functions.
• Peer Connection Monitoring - Triggers events upon peer connection and disconnection to monitor the active session state.
• Peer Identifier Listings - Provides the ability to retrieve a list of all currently connected peer identifiers to discover available clients.
• Discovery Server Hosting - Provides the capability to run a dedicated server to host the peer discovery registry and coordinate handshakes.
• Signaling Middleware - Embedding PeerJS signaling logic into an existing web application as middleware to share a single network port.
• API Key Authentication - Requires clients to provide a specific API key during the connection process to prevent unauthorized access.
• Connection Key Restrictions - Implements key-based access control to restrict unauthorized clients from using the signaling service.
• Server Access Controls - Restricts method calls using required connection keys and manages cross-origin resource sharing policies.
• TLS Traffic Encryption - Supports encrypting communication using SSL certificates and keys to enable secure HTTPS connections.
• Registry Heartbeat Monitoring - Uses periodic heartbeats to monitor peer connectivity and automatically purge inactive entries from the registration registry.
• Embedded Web Servers - Supports embedding the signaling server logic directly into larger application processes with custom request paths.
• Middleware Server Integrations - Allows the signaling server to be integrated as middleware within existing Node.js HTTP servers.
• Node.js Signaling Components - Ships as a Node.js backend component that can be mounted within existing applications to handle peer sessions.

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