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I built an ephemeral P2P chat with WebRTC, without servers

19 points by zRinexD

by nikisweeting

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THis is not without servers, you still use a signaling server for TURN.
If you want true serverless you need a side channel to copy the offer/response, e.g. tell the user's to copy paste them as base64 thorugh whatsapp manually or something (https://github.com/pirate/webrtcchat).

by elwebmaster

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You should mention that it uses PeerJS. That's not without servers. PeerJS runs their own signaling server which you are relying on to connect your peers.

by atmanactive

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This is great, thanks! Would you accept a Github pull request to translate it to English and several other languages?

by iamnothere

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Matrix was once working on something similar, I wonder what the latest status is.
In general, things like this are a great way around current pushes for age verification and mandatory surveillance. Give your friends a link to this, or even a web archive via USB stick, and chat directly without intermediaries. No need to run a server.
(Others pointed out you still need a TURN server. True but hopefully there’s a P2P solution for this.)

by indigodaddy

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- does the room vanish after the last user exits? Seems like it?
- can the room code be tacked on to the url/slug?

by michaelsbradley

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by villgax

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by zRinexD

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I wanted to be able to talk to anyone in the world without relying on any company's servers. No censorship, no rules, no limits except the ones I set in my own room. So I built this.
No signup, no registration. Just create a room with a password, share the code, and anyone can join directly. Everything is peer-to-peer, ephemeral, and disappears when you close the tab.
Would love to hear what you think. Code is open source. Link: https://ephemchat.vercel.app/ Source code: https://github.com/zzrinexd/EphemChat

by stainlu

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