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PeerJS: Simple peer-to-peer data in the browser with WebRTC

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This will be extremely powerful once WebRTC becomes available in all major browsers. Awesome work!

Pardon my ignorance but does WebRTC allow "true peer-to-peer" as in "nothing more than the 2 peers necessary"? I noticed a "PeerServer" is mentioned. Is it possible to have peer-to-peer without a third server?

The server is needed for signaling, setup connection between peers. After connection established, data will flow peer to peer.

Great work Eric, I can think of several things to prototype with this that I've been too lazy to code without some ...help! I really think WebRTC is going to be awesome once it's widely supported.

Fantastic work. Looks easy to use and takes advantage of a powerful new component of these browsers. Looking forward to seeing it in action soon!

Awesome work guys! Hopefully support in stable Chrome is right around the corner

Awesome! I've been hoping someone would make something like this! Great work.

Thanks! Keep up the good work!

interesting concept

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