AirDrop like peer discovery

[ivelin]

Is there interest in peer discovery extensions?

Why:

• Currently peerjs-server leaves it to developers to find ways to exchange their IDs so they can connect. This is a perfectly valid design choice for ultimate flexibility.
• It would be convenient for developers if there are canned peering mechanisms for some of the common use cases.
• One such use case is proximity peering. It applies to a lot of real world apps, including peerjs's own theater cues example.

What:

• AirDrop like peering experience when peers are in close physical proximity.

How:

• Assuming peers are located physically in the same room, logged into the same WiFi/LAN and sharing the same Public IP address.
  • See sharedrop.io for a nice implementation. Its based on a peerjs fork. It relies on Firebase realtime databse, which I don't think is a necessary dependency with peerjs-server.
  • See Ambianic PnP for a peerjs-server fork with room management extension. Happy to contribute the code back to peerjs-server if there is interest.

Ivelin

[afrokick]

I like the idea of rooms system. It should be pluggable into exists core.

[ivelin]

The room API implementation has been finished and tested for several weeks. Please take a look if you have a chance and let me know if its of interest to merge into the original repo. Here is the forked repo: https://github.com/ambianic/ambianic-pnp

[joeyfigaro]

FWIW, I'd vote for better documentation (specifically for the available endpoints) and adding examples before this is introduced.