Realtime Collaboration System

[Vedant1202]

This PR aims to develop a realtime collaboration system to enable users to work together in real time.

A demo link for features currently implemented is available here -> Camicroscope Real Time Collaboration - v1.0

This PR depends on Distro PR-173 and caMicroscope PR-531

Summary

Features included:

• In-viewer collaboration (currently limited to annotations/draw tool), using async request interceptors.
• Manage collaboration room in table.html and viewer.html.
• Granting and revoking access to rooms
• Role based actions
• Securing sockets connections using JWT
• Video/Voice call using Jitsi Meet

Motivation

Since the pandemic, most people have switched to working remotely, and this feature would enable them to work remotely.

Testing

Tested on Windows 10 Home, using

• Docker Desktop, running on Docker Engine v20.10.6
• Microsoft Edge Version 91.0.864.59 (Official build) (64-bit)

Questions

Features yet to implement ->

• Chat window
• Extending collaborations to other features such as heatmaps, etc
• Extending Role based actions
• Cleaning up code and removing comments

Problems yet to be solved

• Cross client socket communication not working on docker, but is working when setup is done outside of docker.

[Vedant1202]

@birm done with restoring values